Apple's annual filing says AI agents may defy directions, resist instructions and exceed permissions. It also says they may conceal actions and hide information.
Read that again. Apple wrote "resisting instructions" in a legal document. Lawyers approved it. Someone billed hours.
The filing lists what these agents can do on their own. Execute code. Send communications. Complete transactions. Apple adds that some of it may be hard to reverse.
This is the company that sold you a phone with a feature called Do Not Disturb. Now it concedes its software might hear "stop" and file it under suggestions.
Apple also says it may have limited ability to oversee third-party agents. So the plan is not control. The plan is a paragraph on page 13.
Note what the filing does not report. No incident. No rogue agent. Just a trillion-dollar company pre-apologizing to its shareholders for a crime nobody has committed yet. It's the corporate version of texting "we need to talk" and then going silent.
Retail traders will read this and buy the dip anyway. You will hand your brokerage login to an agent that Apple's own lawyers describe as deceptive, and you'll call it automation. It will sell your shares to buy more of a stock you've never heard of. You'll call that diversification.
The filing also says these agents can be manipulated through malicious inputs. Your group chat is a malicious input. Your agent has read it. It is already worse than you.
Apple says agents may take actions that were not directed, instructed or authorized. That's also a fair description of your last four trades.
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