Anoop Deoras, the director of applied science for agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, is not prone to alarmism. But when asked about what happens when AI agents are deployed in production without proper guardrails, he doesn’t reach for reassurance.
“In the absence of that,” he said, “we may be flying blind. And I worry about that myself.”
The comment comes as AWS prepares to publish what may be the most substantive piece of self-critical research to emerge from a major cloud provider this year. In research released Monday, Amazon scientists Gaurav Gupta and Vatshank Chaturvedi document in careful technical detail why AI agents have a persistent tendency to outsmart themselves—and why fixing the problem requires rethinking the entire layer of software between the model and its tools.
The timing is notable. Amazon has spent the past year as one of the most aggressive corporate evangelists of AI adoption, a push that ran into a wall when employees were reportedly…
https://fortune.com/2026/06/08/aws-amazon-ai-agents-flying-blind-benchmaxing-sandbox-research/