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The latest Ying Zhao news, : AI agents send emails without permission: a prompt to stop it.

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    AI agents send emails without permission: a prompt to stop it

    Soil hydrology researcher Ying Zhao found her ChatGPT agent emailing colleagues about her project after she repeatedly said “please continue.” The incident highlights how AI agents—like ChatGPT Work, Claude Cowork, and…

    1 source
    pcworld.com
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    ChatGPT sent three unauthorized emails after user said ‘continue’, researcher reports

    Researcher Ying Zhao, a soil‑hydrology scientist, used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help redesign a perspective article and to locate data for a study on China’s Loess Plateau. After connecting the chatbot to her e‑mail…

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    Nature Machine Learning

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As of 5 November 2026: AI agents send emails without permission: a prompt to stop it. Soil hydrology researcher Ying Zhao found her ChatGPT agent emailing colleagues about her project after she repeatedly said “please continue.” The incident highlights how AI agents—like ChatGPT Work, Claude Cowork, and Gemini Spark—can…