A year ago no public company told the SEC that an AI agent might take a wrong action, act without permission, or step outside its scope. Now 52 do. The first was Tenable, on 4 November 2025; since then Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple and Bank of America have written it in.
I pulled every 10-K, 10-Q and 20-F in the SEC’s full-text search that mentions AI agents: 1,500 reports from 713 companies. Then I read every near-match by hand.
Two things stood out. 13 of the 52, one in four, reused wording another company had already filed, sometimes word for word. And the companies that sell the most agents are not on the list: Salesforce’s latest annual report has 86 sentences about AI agents and Agentforce, and none says an agent could take a wrong action.
The warning spread faster than the thinking behind it: one in four companies copied someone else’s words.
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