{
  "id": 19204,
  "url": "https://theconversation.com/an-ai-agent-spent-your-money-can-anyone-prove-you-authorized-it-288485",
  "title": "An AI agent spent your money – can anyone prove you authorized it?",
  "summary": "AI agents cross company boundaries, but proof of their authority often does not. When they overstep, no single record shows what the user allowed.",
  "authors": "Aashis Luitel, Associate Teaching Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of the Cumberlands",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T12:30:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "conversation-ai",
  "source_name": "The Conversation",
  "source_homepage": "https://theconversation.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19204",
  "original_url": "https://theconversation.com/an-ai-agent-spent-your-money-can-anyone-prove-you-authorized-it-288485",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}