Karl Mehta(@karlmehta):Cisco President Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41) says AI agents act like teenagers: "These agents tend to be, you know, like teenagers. They're supremely intelligent, they tend to not have any fear of consequence, and they exercise poor judgment far more frequently than you and I would like." "The distinction between knowing when an agent is being adversarially attacked by an external bad actor versus an agent is in fact exercising poor judgment because they think they're following your order very literally is going to be harder and harder to tell apart." - Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, at our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on October 1.

2026.10.08 15:01

Cisco President Jeetu Patel (@jpatel41) says AI agents act like teenagers: "These agents tend to be, you know, like teenagers. They're supremely intelligent, they tend to not have any fear of consequence, and they exercise poor judgment far more frequently than you and I would like." "The distinction between knowing when an agent is being adversarially attacked by an external bad actor versus an agent is in fact exercising poor judgment because they think they're following your order very literally is going to be harder and harder to tell apart." - Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, at our AI Assurance & Governance Summit at Stanford on October 1.