Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents
In Brief Posted: 4:42 PM PDT · March 18, 2026 Image Credits:Carol Yepes / Getty Images Amanda Silberling Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access. Per an incident report, which was viewed and reported on by The Information, a Meta employee posted on an internal forum asking for help with a technical question — which is a standard action. However, another engineer asked an AI agent to help analyze the question, and the agent ended up posting a response without asking the engineer for permission to share it. Meta confirmed the incident to The Information. As it turns out, the AI agent did not give good advice. The employee who asked the…
