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An AI agent shouldn't have more permissions than the employee it's assisting.

Imagine deploying an AI agent to help your sales team. It needs to read customer information, update CRM records, and create follow-up tasks. So someone gives it broad API access because that's easier than configuring permissions for each action. Now the agent can potentially modify records it shou…

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  1. 2026-10-23 12:16 · r/AI_Agents
    An AI agent shouldn't have more permissions than the employee it's assisting.

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