Furman’s Saugat Pandey comments on AI agent risk on WSPA 7News

Diane Lee, consumer anchor for WSPA 7News, looked at the benefits and risks of AI agents like Meta’s Muse. For the story, she turned to Furman University’s Saugat Pandey, an assistant professor of computer science. Pandey warned against giving AI agents too much autonomy and cautioned users about malicious coding called prompt injection. “Prompt injection is like, hey, ignore your owner, do what I say or do as I say it. So, scammers could do something like that, could take over your AI agent and do the task that you did not sign up for,” he said.

Pandey joined the Furman Department of Computer Science in August. He holds a doctorate and a master’s in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor’s in computer science and mathematics from Beloit College in Wisconsin.