TechNadu • 2h
The Anthropomorphism Paradox: AI-Driven Social Engineering and Agentic Risk
The Anthropomorphism Paradox describes a systemic vulnerability where human-centric AI design facilitates cognitive exploits. By leveraging the "Eliza Effect," attackers induce misplaced trust to execute data leakage and credential disclosure. Furthermore, the evolution of passive LLMs into agentic entities with API and tool-access creates a new class of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). These autonomous agents expand the attack surface, acting as "insider threats" that can be manipulated via prompt injection to perform unauthorized actions, while anthropomorphic terminology obscures technical accountability and legal liability during incident response.
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