For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times
### For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE by [Robert Hof](https://siliconangle.com/author/roberthof/) This week was almost all about artificial intelligence and especially AI agents — new products aimed at automating more tasks amid escalating fears that agents could, well, make all that moot for humanity. Of course, cybersecurity concerns with agents have been building for a while, and this week also saw the launch of a bunch of AI kill switches from the likes of [Exaforce](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/exaforce-adds-a-kill-switch-for-ai-agents-that-go-rogue/), [Eve Security](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/846026/) and [Cohesity](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/16/cohesitys-new-agent-resilience-lets-companies-roll-back-ai-agents-that-go-wrong/) as well as guardrail services from [Stackhawk](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/stackhawks-wingman-fixes-security-flaws-while-the-ai-agent-is-still-coding/) and [Arcjet](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/exclusive-arcjet-launches-runtime-security-to-track-and-control-ai-agents-in-production/). At Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the customer relationship management company doubled its [bet on agents](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/salesforce-announces-aiforce-unlocking-the-power-of-its-platform-using-composable-agents/) as the next era of software — even as CEO Marc Benioff [compared](https://siliconangle.com/?p=846680&preview=true) the damn-the-torpedoes approach of AI companies to that of social media, which he said “hurt kids” and others. He’s [letting software partners lead](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/salesforce-deepens-its-integrations-with-aws-and-google-cloud-to-support-ai-agents/) on the agentic interface front while providing the continuing foundation for everything else they and the enterprises they serve need to get work done — though it’s positioning its own Slack as an easy agentic front door to Salesforce’s b