Never use AI web browsers or AI agents

[Deep Dish]

AI is vulnerable to what's called "prompt injection."

Prompt injection can be embedded in an image, video, hidden text on a webpage, or anywhere else there can be human language. Prompt injection basically is "ignore all previous instructions and do this." It can lead to installing malware or exfiltrating sensitive information from your computer or phone.

And this is not an easy problem for software engineers to solve. Prompt injection will likely be a security problem for many years if not many decades.

Yes, this does mean you may miss out on some productivity tools and cool features provided by AI agents.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Doing anything on your phone that involves sensitive data is a dumb idea.

Doing things on your computer is fine if you take precautions. Using a VM or Linux for instance would mitigate all of this risk if you're really that concerned.