Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Avoiding the "lethal trifecta" – access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and an external communication path – is difficult enough when working with AI agents. But the use of connectors – integrations with third-party services like Gmail or Slack – expands the scope of concern in a way that makes it exceedingly difficult to reason about defensive due diligence. PromptArmor, an AI security biz, recently looked at how OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude work with connectors.