
1.5 million AI agents are at risk of going rogue
A study released Wednesday by API management platform vendor Gravitee indicates that upwards of half of the three million agents currently in use by organizations in the US and UK “are ungoverned and at the risk of going rogue.” Based on a December 2025 survey of 750 IT executives and practitioners conducted by Opinion Matters, the results revealed that AI agents are being deployed faster than security teams can keep up. There are, said Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee, now over three million AI agents operating within corporations, which he described as a workforce larger than the entire global employee count at Walmart. The three million number is based on an extrapolation of survey results,...