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Cisco president warns AI agents need 'background checks' like human employees

In an interview with Euronews Next, Cisco's president Jeetu Patel reveals the company has built its first product with 100% AI-generated code and warns that AI agents acting as 'digital coworkers' will need background checks and billions in security investment to prevent them from going rogue.

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00:15in the next two weeks we will have refactored all the code in the past that was written in
00:19that product with AI as well no human lines of code and my guess is and my prediction is by
00:26the end of 26 calendar year we'll have at least half a dozen products that would be written with
00:32AI only don't worry about AI taking a job but worry about someone using AI better than you
00:41definitely taking a job and if you don't use AI you're definitely going to lose your job we won't
00:45have developers at Cisco that don't use AI as a core habit within the way that they get the job
00:53done these agents who are going to be conducting this work on our behalf need to get the background
01:07checks done just like you get a background check done for an employee you have to protect the agent
01:11from the world of attacks and you have to protect the world from the agent that goes rogue and both
01:19of those things require security and safety systems that are put in place
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