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We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, and shell execution. Over a two-week…

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Autonomous agent systems such as OpenClaw introduce significant efficiency challenges due to long-context inputs and multi-turn reasoning. This results in prohibitively high computational and monetary costs in real-world development. While…

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Autonomous AI agents that can follow instructions and perform complex multi-step tasks have tremendous potential to boost human productivity. However, to perform many of these tasks, the agents need access to personal information from their…

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LLMs are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents with access to tools, databases, and external services, yet practitioners (across different sectors) lack systematic methods to assess how known threat classes translate into concrete…

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There is an overlooked iceberg of problems in end user computing. Spreadsheets are developed by people who are very skilled in their main job function, be it finance, procurement, or production planning, but often have had no formal…

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Accountability regimes typically encourage record-keeping to enable the transparency that supports oversight, investigation, contestation, and redress. However, implementing such record-keeping can introduce considerations, risks, and…

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LLM-powered agents are beginning to automate user's tasks across the open web, often with access to user resources such as emails and calendars. Unlike standard LLMs answering questions in a controlled ChatBot setting, web agents act "in…

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Autonomous browsing agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate web-based tasks. However, their reliance on dynamic content, tool execution, and user-provided data exposes them to a broad attack surface.…

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Autonomous AI agents extend large language models into full runtime systems that load skills, ingest external content, maintain memory, plan multi-step actions, and invoke privileged tools. In such systems, security failures rarely remain…

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This study examines users' behavioural intention to use OpenClaw through the Cognition--Affect--Conation (CAC) framework. The research investigates how cognitive perceptions of the system influence affective responses and subsequently shape…

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LLM safety evaluations predominantly test models in isolation, yet deployed AI agents increasingly operate within persistent social environments alongside other agents. We introduce a Moltbook-style simulation platform where thousands of…

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Millions of users now design personalized LLM-based chatbots that shape their daily interactions, yet they can only roughly anticipate how their design choices will manifest as behaviors in deployment. This opacity is consequential:…

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Unlike traditional automation tools or static LLM-based systems, agents combine decision-making and tool utilization to accomplish complex tasks, showing great potential in software engineering. However, existing studies largely focus on…

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Healthcare automation is shaped by local procedures and organizational constraints, so agent capabilities rarely transfer unchanged across settings. Agent skills, self-contained directories that package reusable procedures for AI agents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gelei Xu , Ningzhi Tang , Xueyang Li , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Zhi Zheng , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Large language model (LLM)-based agents that reason, plan, and act through tools, memory, and structured interaction are emerging as a promising paradigm for automating complex workflows. Recent systems such as OpenClaw and Claude Code…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yingli Zhou , Wang Shu , Yaodong Su , Wenchuan Du , Yixiang Fang , Xuemin Lin

In daily life, there are many scenarios that people need to tackle data-related tasks, such as filling out forms, analyzing Excel files, and visualize data report. However, the tools available for these tasks often fragment, requiring users…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Huahang Li , Wentao Hu , Zhuoyue Wan , Chen Jason Zhang , Haoyang Li , Xiaoyong Wei

Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on our behalf. These decisions range from our purchases to travel plans to medical treatment selection.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Manuel Cherep , Chengtian Ma , Abigail Xu , Maya Shaked , Pattie Maes , Nikhil Singh

As autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) proliferate in high-stakes domains -- from pharmaceuticals to legal workflows -- the challenge is no longer just intelligence, but verifiability. We introduce TrustTrack, a…

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