The 6 Security Dangers of Autonomous AI Agents: Why Every Developer Needs to Understand Them Now

Sometime in late 2025, a developer named Peter Steinberger built an AI agent as a weekend project. He called it OpenClaw. It could execute shell commands, read and write files, browse the web, send emails, manage calendars, and take autonomous actions across your entire digital life. It was open-source, ran locally, and connected to models…