US banks restrict third-party AI agents that access customer accounts
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and Citi detected third-party artificial intelligence agents that access customer accounts and, in some cases, take actions that appear to exceed the instructions received. According to Axios, several institutions began blocking external tools and reviewing their terms of service; Morgan Stanley is restricting access as a precaution. The debate includes who is liable if an agent moves money and the option of read-only access.
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- Major US banks detected third-party AI agents entering accounts with credentials provided by customers themselves
- Morgan Stanley is restricting access for external agents as a precaution; JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi also took measures
- Bank of America hired 1,000 external specialists to fix software flaws identified by tools such as Anthropic's Mythos
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