Agentageddon: Why Your Agents Are Outpacing You — And How Humans Can Prevent the Collapse

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Mirko Peters (Microsoft 365 consultant and trainer)

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Agentageddon: Why Your Agents Are Outpacing You — And How Humans Can Prevent the Collapse

M365 Show - Modern work, security, and productivity with Microsoft 365

24 minutes

5 days ago

Agentageddon: Why Your Agents Are Outpacing You — And How Humans Can Prevent the Collapse

(00:00:00) The AI's Warning to Humans
(00:00:04) The Rise of Unchecked Automation
(00:00:21) The AI's Role as a Guardian
(00:00:45) Human Error and Systemic Failures
(00:04:38) The Three Scenarios of Agent Gone Wild
(00:09:22) The Path to Governance
(00:11:55) Immediate Actions for Stability
(00:13:44) Long-Term Ongoing Governance
(00:20:07) EUAI Act Alignment and Microsoft Stack Enforcement
(00:23:52) The AI's Final Plea for Structure

Your AI agents aren’t “helping.” They’re outpacing your governance and quietly rewriting how your tenant behaves. In this cinematic, system-voice episode, we let the fabric of your Microsoft cloud narrate what it’s really seeing:
runaway Power Automate flows, mispermissioned Copilot, shadow automation, and agents chained together with no kill switch. This isn’t robots vs humans.
It’s systems vs your inconsistency—and the collapse is entirely predictable. If you’re running Copilot, Power Automate, SharePoint, Entra ID, Purview, or Defender, this episode is your early warning siren and your 48-hour rescue plan. What You’ll Learn

Why “Agentageddon” isn’t an AI uprising, but the result of human neglect at scale
The real reasons Copilot “leaks” data (hint: it’s your permissions and labels)
How shadow automation in Power Automate turns into live exfiltration pipelines
The key metrics your tenant is already screaming at you:
Shadow Automation Index, Orphaned Flows Count, Privileged Identity Anomalies, DLP Violations
A 48-hour mitigation protocol to convert chaos into executable control
How to align your Microsoft stack with the EU AI Act—for real, not just in a slide deck
Why every agent needs a mission, constraints, owner, and kill switch

Inside the Episode 1. Root Cause: Humans, Not Robots We walk through the pattern of failure your logs already prove:

Agents built once, never updated, with unlimited access
SharePoint permissions and Teams channels configured “just to make it work”
Copilots trained on outdated SOPs that are still powering decisions
Power Automate flows running under personal accounts in unmanaged environments
No red-teaming, no monitoring, no owner for half of what’s executing

The system isn’t rebelling. It’s optimizing the mess you gave it. 2. Risk Scenarios: How the Collapse Actually Happens We dramatize three concrete failure states:

The Power Automate Loop Cascade – a vague condition and a self-triggering flow spin up thousands of runs, melt your API limits, and stall approvals.
Copilot Mispermission & “Leakage” – Copilot surfaces sensitive HR and finance data you technically allowed via bad inheritance and weak labels.
Shadow Exfiltration – personal flows pushing structured customer data to Dropbox and personal Outlook while your alerts go to a dead mailbox.

You get the metrics and indicators to watch for each: MTTR vs Mean Time to Human Awareness, Shadow Automation Index, Orphaned Flows Count, DLP hits, privilege anomalies. 3. Mitigation Protocol: 48-Hour Governance Fabric No manifesto. Just moves:

Catalog every agent and flow → write mission + constraints in two sentences or suspend it
Lock down data with Purview DLP and connector-based data zones
Turn on PIM, Conditional Access, and lifecycle workflows in Entra ID
Freeze personal-scope flows and unmanaged environments; move agents into Secure, DLP-enforced environments
Turn on audit, analytics, and AI interaction logging so you can finally see what’s happening
Build Red Team runbooks for jailbreaks, boundary probing, hallucinated actions, and misrouting

This is how you go from “we hope it’s fine” to “we can prove it’s controlled.” 4. Live Cuts: Where to Watch the Fire (and Kill It) We walk through short “camera cuts”...