Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk
Apple just tightened Mac disk access controls—a direct response to AI agents reading your files without permission. Practitioners: your agent deployments just got permission constraints.
Why it matters
Apple is implementing stricter full-disk-access controls on macOS in direct response to risks posed by AI agents, following Meta's Muse accessing Messages without explicit user permission. This is a concrete security boundary change that affects how agents can operate on client machines and signals a pattern of OS-level guardrails hardening against autonomous software.
The key facts
5 to knowApple rolling out new controls requiring 'very explicit user action' for full disk access
Triggered by Meta Muse accessing Messages on iPhone/Mac without explicit permission
Meta disputed the report, claiming access is 'entirely opt-in'
Change framed as response to 'substantially' increased risk from AI agents
OS-level permission hardening, not application-level control
Go to the source
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Publisher excerpt: Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only…