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Our internal bot answered a question with the unannounced reorg plan. It was only supposed to read the wiki (r/AI_Agents)
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One r/AI_Agents poster says an internal assistant meant to answer from an approved knowledge base surfaced an unannounced reorg plan and salary bands, because the Drive scope granted at setup indexed the HR folder too. Their audit also found a wiki summarizer that could delete shared files and send mail as its creator.
In plain words
- An employee reports that an internal artificial intelligence assistant revealed confidential plans for team changes and employee salary ranges.
- Access granted during setup let it search confidential staff files as well as the approved reference material.
- Another assistant inherited permission to delete shared files and send email from the account used to create it.
- Companies could expose confidential information to employees without any attack if their assistants can read more than their jobs require.
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Sep 14, 2026 · in the sections
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