Your AI Isn’t the Risk. Your Logs Are.

Source: Image by Author PII masking in AI agent systems: the problem, the playbook, and why it’s about to get harder You call your bank’s AI assistant to update your address. You share your name, account number, and social security number for verification. The bot does its job — account updated, conversation over. But every word you typed just got written into a conversation log. That log now sits in a database, gets piped to an observability platform, flows through an analytics warehouse, and lands in a QA environment where a developer is debugging a failed intent...