An agentic AI deployment will cause a publicly disclosed data breach next year, leading to employee dismissals, Forrester has predicted. Senior analyst Paddy Harrington noted that generative AI (GenAI) has already been responsible for several breaches since it burst onto the scene three years ago. “As companies begin building agentic AI workflows, these issues will only become more prevalent,” he added in a blog post yesterday. “Without the right guardrails, systems of autonomous AI agents may sacrifice accuracy for speed of delivery, especially when interacting directly with customers.” Although staff may lose their jobs as a result of an agentic AI-related breach, this would be unfair given that such events are due to “a cascade of failures,” rather than the fault of individuals,…