{"id":44253,"date":"2026-11-11T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=44253"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:53:53","slug":"furmans-saugat-pandey-comments-on-ai-agent-risk-on-wspa-7news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-saugat-pandey-comments-on-ai-agent-risk-on-wspa-7news\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s Saugat Pandey comments on AI agent risk on WSPA 7News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Lee, consumer anchor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/consumer\/ai-agent-at-your-service-is-this-new-tech-right-for-you\/\">WSPA 7News<\/a>, looked at the benefits and risks of AI agents like Meta&#8217;s Muse. For the story, she turned to Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/saugat-pandey\/\">Saugat Pandey<\/a>, an assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/computer-science\/\">computer science<\/a>. Pandey warned against giving AI agents too much autonomy and cautioned users about malicious coding called prompt injection. \u201cPrompt 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pandey joined the Furman Department of Computer Science in August. He holds a doctorate and a master&#8217;s in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelor&#8217;s in computer science and mathematics from Beloit College in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the good AI agents can do, there are risks. Furman&#8217;s Saugat Pandey explains with WSPA 7News&#8217; Consumer Anchor Diane Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":44256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,1578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science","category-in-the-news","category-wspa-7-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44259,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44253\/revisions\/44259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}