There’s a new generation of browsers coming to shake up the market and revolutionize the way we use the web—at least, that’s how new “AI” browsers like Perplexity’s Comet are being pitched to users. But it looks like giving control of your web browsing over to an AI system may be a bit of a gamble, as new research shows that they’re at least as susceptible to scams as fleshy humans… possibly more so.

Security researchers at Guardio put the AI-powered Comet browser through a series of tests that replicated existing scams and targeted new ones to its “agentic AI” approach. Agentic AI allows you to tell the browser what you want done in plain words, and then the browser acts as an agent on your behalf and performs the actions for you. But Perplexity’s AI system seems a bit more trusting t

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