AI Risk Quadrant Report: Only 11% of 100 Production Agents Pass the Security Bar; 98% Carry the 'Lethal Trifecta'
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The Q2 2026 AI Risk Quadrant (AIRQ) assessment, led by Eugene Neelou, scored 100 production agents across attack surface, blast radius, and defense controls and found only 11% qualify as 'Fortified Leaders' while 98% exhibit the lethal trifecta of private-data access, untrusted-content exposure, and outbound-action capability. Tool execution alone explains 76% of blast-radius variance, and sandboxing cut residual risk roughly 2.6x. Notably, only 17% of vendor defense claims carried independent public verification.