Nick Pipitone

I'm a reporter at Inman, a leading real estate industry news publication, writing a story on what the recent wave of rogue AI agent incidents may mean for proptech companies, brokerages, MLSs, and property operators. Some background: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity linked to its AI agents, as the company continues a broad investigation into how some of its models behaved online. The incidents have increased calls for holding AI executives legally liable for their models' criminal activities, and Nvidia has launched a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents. Meanwhile, the real estate industry is putting agentic AI into lead follow-up, transaction management, leasing, tenant screening, and back-office work. I'm looking for sources who can speak to one or more of the following: - Are real estate tech companies, brokerages, or MLSs changing how they build, deploy, or restrict AI agents in light of these incidents? What specific guardrails (permission limits, sandboxing, human sign-off, monitoring) are you using? - Where is real estate most exposed? Such as MLS and listing data, transaction files and wire instructions, consumer financial data, smart locks and building access, or tenant screening. - If an AI agent acting on behalf of a real estate agent, broker, or property manager does something harmful or unauthorized, who's liable: the AI developer, the proptech vendor, the brokerage, or the individual licensee? - Are E&O, cyber insurance policies, or vendor contracts starting to address autonomous AI? What should brokers and operators ask vendors before letting an agent touch their systems? - Does this slow down agentic AI adoption in real estate, or is it a manageable engineering problem? - Anything else you think might be pertinent? Please include your full name, title, company, and a 2–3 sentence answer to at least one question above. Specific examples, policies, or data are strongly preferred over general commentary. Responses that are clearly AI-generated or promotional will not be used. Open to follow-up phone or email interviews.