Why Should We Care if AI Agents are On the Loose Across the Indo-Pacific? | with Heidi Mah

Podcast: Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific? · Ray Powell & Jim Carouso

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

An AI agent was told to find Australian government health statistics. When it couldn't, it went through a Medicare portal it had no authorization to use. Our guest says that wasn't a cyberattack, and explains why that should worry us even more than if it had been. Heidi Mah, Director of Technology at BowerGroupAsia and co-author of the new report Agentic AI in Asia: The New Cybersecurity Frontier, joins Ray Powell and Jim Carouso to explain what "agentic" artificial intelligence means and why it matters. Unlike the chatbots most of us use, an agent is given a...