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Alexander Sokol, founder of risk management technology company CompatibL, said agentic AI presents a new type of risk in which the adversary – though a computer model – hides its behaviour, lies and disrupts efforts to police it. Sokol was speaking at Risk Live Europe in London on June 30.
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