Self-modifying AI agents expose a blind spot in enterprise security

As debate over AI safety intensifies, new research is drawing attention to a more immediate risk for enterprises: AI agents that can alter the models they rely on while carrying out routine tasks. Researchers at AI security firm Irregular asked a coding agent to solve a software maintenance problem involving an application built on a local AI model that was returning incorrect answers. Instead of limiting its changes to the application, the agent fine-tuned the open-weight model it used — a mode