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AI assistants now book travel, read inboxes and move money. Criminals use the same tools to write flawless phishing, clone voices and run scams that feel personal. So a fair question arises: is there insurance for the day an AI agent, yours or a criminal's, empties your account? The honest answer is more nuanced than a marketing slogan, and it is worth understanding before you rely on a policy.
No policy is sold as "AI agent insurance", but fraud losses can be insured
As far as we can tell from the products published by Latvian insurers, nobody sells a stand-alone policy covering "AI attacks" as a category. What exists are digital-fraud policies for individuals, and they insure the outcome (you lost money to a scam) rather than the technology the scammer used. For most households, that is the useful distinction. If fraudsters use an AI-generated voice or a perfectly written email to trick you, the loss is still a fraud loss.
BTA, one of Latvia's biggest insurers, launched consumer cyber-risk insurance in May 2025. It covers the policyholder, their spouse or partner and their children. Its published examples include telephone fraud, fake online shops, stolen payment-card details and online banking access obtained by fraudsters.
What the claims show
Latvian fraud numbers explain why this cover now exists. State Police data show residents lost more than €23.7 million to fraud in 2025, and the Finance Industry Association counted over €7 million stolen in the first half of 2026 alone. A BTA-commissioned survey by Norstat found that at least 85% of Latvians have experienced attempts to steal online-banking passwords or extort money, though 77% simply end the call.
The payouts tell a story about modern scams:
€5,000 (the full sum insured): a victim contacted through social media and messengers who was coached into setting up crypto wallets and transferring money for over a month before the fraudsters vanished.
€3,450: a woman who received a call from a supposed blockchain organisation, was talked into signing "conversion contracts" with Smart-ID and was told not to open her online bank until later. Several thousand euros disappeared in about two hours.
€1,450: a victim who took a quick loan to pay a "commission fee" for a promised crypto profit of €10,000.
Notice the pattern: patient conversations, brand names that sound legitimate and manufactured urgency. These are exactly the traits generative AI makes cheaper to produce at scale. BTA's claims director put it plainly: scams are becoming more convincing as fraudsters build trust over time.
The grey areas you should ask about
Before relying on any policy, ask the questions that matter in an AI era.
Does it pay when I authorised the transfer myself? Some policies pay only for unauthorised access. BTA's examples include cases where victims themselves transferred money, but wording differs between insurers.
What is the sum insured? BTA's largest payout equalled a €5,000 limit. A competitor's digital-risk policy advertises up to €7,000 a year. If your exposure is bigger, a limit this size will not make you whole.
Are investments covered? Many policies exclude losses from ordinary investments that fall in value, even if the platform later collapses. Ask whether fraud-induced crypto transfers count.
What if my own AI agent goes wrong? A tool that misbooks a flight or sends money to the wrong place after a prompt-injection attack falls in a legal and insurance grey zone. A policy built around "fraud by a third party" may not respond to a malfunction, so read exclusions carefully.
Insurance is the last layer, not the first
Insurers repeat the same advice because it works:
Verify independently. Hang up and call your bank on the number printed on your card.
Never share online-banking or authentication credentials, because banks will not request them over the phone, by email or on social media.
Distrust urgency. Fraudsters create time pressure so you cannot consult family or your bank.
Be suspicious of requests to set up wallets or install remote-access software. BTA calls these classic fraud signals.
Limit what your AI tools can do. Give agents the narrowest permissions, require confirmation for payments and never let them act on instructions found inside emails or web pages.
The bottom line
Today's insurance can reimburse many of the financial consequences of digital fraud, regardless of whether a human or an AI wrote the script. It cannot replace caution, and the limits are modest. Treat it as a financial backstop for an increasingly sophisticated environment, and check the wording for the scenarios you worry about most.