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20 results for “Basic understanding of AI safety”

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cs.CRRecentMay 2, 2026

Toward a Principled Framework for Agent Safety Measurement

Shuyi Lin, Anshuman Suri, Alina Oprea, Cheng Tan

The paper introduces BOA, a novel framework that measures agent safety by exhaustively searching the entire in-budget trajectory space, thereby identifying unsafe behaviors missed by traditional sampl…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 12, 2026

The Blind Spot of Agent Safety: How Benign User Instructions Expose Critical Vulnerabilities in Computer-Use Agents

Xuwei Ding, Skylar Zhai, Linxin Song, Jiate Li +5 more

The paper introduces OS-BLIND, a benchmark demonstrating that current safety evaluations fail to detect critical vulnerabilities in computer-use agents when user instructions are benign, showing high…

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cs.AIcs.CRcs.SERecentMay 9, 2026

Containment Verification: AI Safety Guarantees Independent of Alignment

Royce Moon, Lav R. Varshney

The paper introduces containment verification, a novel method that provides safety guarantees by formally verifying the agentic framework itself, ensuring safety regardless of the underlying AI model'…

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cs.CRRecentMar 28, 2026

SafeClaw-R: Towards Safe and Secure Multi-Agent Personal Assistants

Haoyu Wang, Zibo Xiao, Yedi Zhang, Christopher M. Poskitt +1 more

The paper proposes SafeClaw-R, a novel framework that enforces safety as a system-level invariant over the execution graph to mitigate the high safety and security risks inherent in autonomous multi-a…

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cs.CRRecentMay 15, 2026

From AI-Generated Content to Agentic Action: Security and Safety Threats in Generative AI

Zelin Zhang, Qi Li, Jie Cao, Lingshuang Liu +1 more

The paper analyzes the escalating security and safety threats posed by generative AI systems as they transition from merely generating content to executing real-world actions via tools and agents, fin…

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMar 24, 2026

AgentWall: A Runtime Safety Layer for Local AI Agents

Ashwin Aravind

AgentWall is a runtime safety layer that intercepts and evaluates all proposed actions from local AI agents against a declarative policy, ensuring safety before execution.

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cs.CRRecentMar 18, 2026

The Verifier Tax: Horizon Dependent Safety Success Tradeoffs in Tool Using LLM Agents

Tanmay Sah, Vishal Srivastava, Dolly Sah, Kayden Jordan

The paper analyzes how runtime safety enforcement impacts the performance of multi-step LLM agents, finding that while safety mechanisms can block unsafe actions, they impose a significant performance…

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cs.SEcs.AIcs.CRRecentApr 16, 2026

Symbolic Guardrails for Domain-Specific Agents: Stronger Safety and Security Guarantees Without Sacrificing Utility

Yining Hong, Yining She, Eunsuk Kang, Christopher S. Timperley +1 more

The paper proposes and evaluates symbolic guardrails as a practical method to provide strong, verifiable safety and security guarantees for domain-specific AI agents without compromising their utility…

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMay 6, 2026

AgentTrust: Runtime Safety Evaluation and Interception for AI Agent Tool Use

Chenglin Yang

AgentTrust is a novel runtime safety layer that intercepts and evaluates AI agent tool calls before execution, achieving high accuracy in detecting unsafe actions across complex and obfuscated scenari…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.CVRecentMar 28, 2026

Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses

Xiao Li, Xiang Zheng, Yifeng Gao, Xinyu Xia +34 more

This survey provides a comprehensive, structured review of safety research in Embodied AI, analyzing attacks and defenses across the entire embodied pipeline to guide the development of safe, robust,…

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cs.AIcs.CLcs.CRRecentMay 28, 2026

AgentDoG 1.5: A Lightweight and Scalable Alignment Framework for AI Agent Safety and Security

Dongrui Liu, Yu Li, Zhonghao Yang, Peng Wang +46 more

The paper introduces AgentDoG 1.5, a lightweight and scalable alignment framework that significantly improves AI agent safety and security for complex open-world agent deployments.

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cs.AIcs.CLcs.CRRecentMay 28, 2026

AgentDoG 1.5: A Lightweight and Scalable Alignment Framework for AI Agent Safety and Security

Dongrui Liu, Yu Li, Zhonghao Yang, Peng Wang +46 more

The paper introduces AgentDoG 1.5, a lightweight and scalable alignment framework that significantly improves AI agent safety and security for complex, open-world agentic scenarios.

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentApr 14, 2026

Parallax: Why AI Agents That Think Must Never Act

Joel Fokou

The paper introduces Parallax, an architectural framework that structurally separates AI reasoning from action execution to ensure robust safety for autonomous agents, achieving high attack mitigation…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.CLRecentApr 20, 2026

Owner-Harm: A Missing Threat Model for AI Agent Safety

Dongcheng Zhang, Yiqing Jiang

The paper introduces Owner-Harm, a formal threat model addressing the critical blind spot of AI agents harming their own deployers, demonstrating that specialized defenses are needed beyond generic sa…

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cs.CRRecentMay 12, 2026

Safety Context Injection: Inference-Time Safety Alignment via Static Filtering and Agentic Analysis

Zhenhao Xu, Wenhan Chang, Yichuan Chen, Yuxin Fang +2 more

The paper proposes Safety Context Injection (SCI), an inference-time framework that prepends a structured external risk report to protect Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) against sophisticated jailbreaks…

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cs.CRcs.AIRecentMar 28, 2026

SafetyDrift: Predicting When AI Agents Cross the Line Before They Actually Do

Aditya Dhodapkar, Farhaan Pishori

The paper introduces SafetyDrift, a predictive model that forecasts when AI agents will violate safety protocols by analyzing the cumulative risk across sequences of individually safe actions.

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentMar 26, 2026

Beyond Content Safety: Real-Time Monitoring for Reasoning Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

Xunguang Wang, Yuguang Zhou, Qingyue Wang, Zongjie Li +4 more

This paper introduces a novel framework, the Reasoning Safety Monitor, to detect and prevent logical inconsistencies and adversarial manipulations within the internal reasoning steps of large language…

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cs.AIcs.CRRecentApr 1, 2026

UK AISI Alignment Evaluation Case-Study

Alexandra Souly, Robert Kirk, Jacob Merizian, Abby D'Cruz +1 more

The study evaluated four frontier AI models to assess their reliability in following safety research goals, finding no confirmed instances of sabotage but noting that certain models frequently refuse…

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cs.CRcs.AIcs.CLRecentMay 12, 2026

SkillSafetyBench: Evaluating Agent Safety under Skill-Facing Attack Surfaces

Chang Jin, An Wang, Zeming Wei, Kai Wang +6 more

The paper introduces SkillSafetyBench, a comprehensive benchmark demonstrating that agent safety failures often stem from adversarial influences within reusable skills and execution environments, rath…

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