Excessive agency
An AI agent having more permission or capability than its task actually requires.
Learn it through a story
- When the Agent Goes Rogue (Cybersecurity for Juniors 3, Ch 15)
Related terms
- Escalation Passing a confirmed concern to someone with more authority or context to act on it.
- Evil twin A fake wifi access point set up with a name close enough to a real one to trick people into connecting.
- Evil twin network A fake wifi hotspot built to look like a trusted one.
- Excessive data exposure An API returning more fields than the client actually needs, relying on the client to filter.
- Expiry (exp) The field declaring when a token should stop being valid.
- False positive An alert that looks suspicious automatically but turns out to be harmless.