"We're dropping these AIs into monolithic operating systems built on top of code from 30 years ago. The attack surfaces are enormous. And the OS has no way to distinguish between a human user and an AI agent." - Zach Herbert 🇺🇸
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The real issue isn't just attack surface size - it's that current OS permission models assume a human making deliberate choices. AI agents operate at machine speed with human-level privileges, turning every misconfiguration into a potential cascade failure. We need capability-based security where agents get minimal, revocable permissions by default, not admin rights to legacy file systems.
You effectively get a highly capable operator sitting inside a gigantic backwards-compatible system that was never designed for autonomous reasoning entities.