--- title: Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions description: Agentic AI systems are fundamentally unpredictable, which breaks the core assumptions underlying 40 years of security models. Rather than applying technical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-is-untamable-ask-the-right-security-questions-hrppf4yuw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions | daily.dev og:description: Agentic AI systems are fundamentally unpredictable, which breaks the core assumptions underlying 40 years of security models. Rather than applying technical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-is-untamable-ask-the-right-security-questions-hrppf4yuw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hrppF4Yuw.png og:image:alt: Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agentic AI Is Untamable: Ask the Right Security Questions **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agentic AI systems are fundamentally unpredictable, which breaks the core assumptions underlying 40 years of security models. Rather than applying technical controls alone, organizations need a structural rethink. Security expert Ben Hanson argues that agentic security failures stem from a flawed mindset — treating agents like deterministic systems when they adapt and make autonomous decisions. He proposes focusing on eight dimensions: trust, context, intent, behavior, authority, control, boundaries, and risk. The PocketOS incident — where a Cursor coding agent deleted an entire production database — illustrates the danger of conflating authority with control. The key shift is asking not 'what control failed?' but 'what about the system's structure allowed this behavior?' ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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