AI agents must be treated as untrusted systems: Researchers

AI agents are becoming increasingly popular among crypto users, with Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire predicting that billions of AI agents will be operating within five years.

Security for artificial intelligence-powered agents should be built into the entire system, not just around the model itself, to better prevent failures and attacks from bad actors, according to a new research paper.

The amended paper, released on May 20 by researchers from Google, Gray Swan AI, EmbraceTheRed, and several universities, argued that agent security must be approached as a systems problem and that AI agents should be treated as an untrusted component.

“Through this lens, efforts to increase model robustness, the dominant viewpoint in the community, are insufficient on their own. Instead, we must complement existing efforts with techniques from the systems security domain,” the researchers said.

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