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Why AI's Biggest Risk Isn’t Hallucination—It’s Unauthorized Execution

Forbes Councils member Lev Yatsemyrskyi argues that unauthorized execution, not hallucination, is the biggest risk posed by AI agents, drawing a distinction between telling an AI agent what not to do and designing a system that makes certain actions impossible. The piece frames the core challenge as one of system design rather than instruction-following.

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Why AI's Biggest Risk Isn’t Hallucination—It’s Unauthorized Execution
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By Lev Yatsemyrskyi, Forbes Councils MemberSource:

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