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Thursday, October 15, 2026
Microsoft’s CEO wants AI agents on your PC. He also thinks they’re a security risk.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants AI agents to do far more on our computers. There’s just one small catch: He doesn’t think we should trust them.

“I think of all agents as insider risk and treat them as such — or all models as insider risk — and so treat them as such,” Nadella told Joanna Stern in an exclusive interview following Microsoft’s unveiling of its Nvidia-powered Surface Laptop Ultra.

It’s a striking admission from the head of a company that’s not only building AI models but also makes an operating system used by more than a billion people — the very place where those potentially risky AI agents will operate.

But that’s also central to Nadella’s vision.

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