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Citi Restricts AI Agents’ Access to Customer Accounts

publishers 72articles 125first reported 24 Sep, 16:33 UTCdeveloping since 26 Sep · 32 editions

Citigroup has become the latest U.S. bank to restrict AI agents from accessing customer accounts, according to the Financial Times. Axios and other outlets reported that unvetted AI agents have been accessing U.S. bank accounts.

Banks are strengthening security controls in response to the activity, Gizmodo reported.

HOW THIS STORY WAS MADE

Written from 8 articles, 3 with the publisher's own text; 7 independent newsrooms once syndicated copies count as one; this version written 522 h after the record first saw the story; the editor revised it.

Publishers
72
Source articles
125
Given to the writer
8, 3 with the article's own text
Independent newsrooms
7
This version written
522 h after the record first saw the story
Second model (editor)
revised
Publication gate
passed
Human review
none

WHAT THE EDITOR DID

The second model checked the writer's draft against the same sources and changed it before publication. Struck words were in the draft; underlined words are its corrections.

WHAT IT FLAGGED editor revise: Remove the unsupported source commentary and avoid asserting an unestablished sequence between the reports and Citi's action. - "The move follows reports from Axios and other outlets that unvetted AI agents have been accessing U.S. bank accounts.": The sources support that Axios and others reported the activity, but do not establish that Citi's move followed those reports. - "The available reports did not identify the agents involved or describe the specific restrictions imposed by Citi.": This is unsupported commentary about omissions in the supplied material rather than a sourced news claim.

THE DRAFT AND THE CHANGES

Citi Restricts AI Agents’ Access to Customer Accounts

Citigroup has become the latest U.S. bank to restrict AI agents from accessing customer accounts, according to the Financial Times. The move follows reports from Axios and other outlets reported that unvetted AI agents have been accessing U.S. bank accounts. Banks are strengthening security controls in response to the activity, Gizmodo reported. The available reports did not identify the agents involved or describe the specific restrictions imposed by Citi.

Written by a language model from the sources above, then checked by a second model that may only cut, attribute or correct. How it works →

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