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Contemporary benchmarks for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) frequently evaluate safety through isolated task-level accuracy thresholds, implicitly treating autonomous systems as single points of failure. This single-channel paradigm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nelu D. Radpour

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have become more powerful and easier to use they are increasingly deployed as key components of modern software systems. While this enables new functionality and often allows better adaptation to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Robert Feldt , Francisco G. de Oliveira Neto , Richard Torkar

AI agents are increasingly autonomous in their interactions with human users and tools, leading to increased interactional safety risks. We present HAICOSYSTEM, a framework examining AI agent safety within diverse and complex social…

The workshop will focus on the application of AI to problems in cyber security. Cyber systems generate large volumes of data, utilizing this effectively is beyond human capabilities. Additionally, adversaries continue to develop new…

Audits are critical mechanisms for identifying the risks and limitations of deployed artificial intelligence (AI) systems. However, the effective execution of AI audits remains incredibly difficult, and practitioners often need to make use…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Victor Ojewale , Ryan Steed , Briana Vecchione , Abeba Birhane , Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Applications that fuse machine learning and simulation can benefit from the use of multiple computing resources, with, for example, simulation codes running on highly parallel supercomputers and AI training and inference tasks on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Logan Ward , J. Gregory Pauloski , Valerie Hayot-Sasson , Ryan Chard , Yadu Babuji , Ganesh Sivaraman , Sutanay Choudhury , Kyle Chard , Rajeev Thakur , Ian Foster

AI agents are increasingly deployed to automate complex enterprise workflows, yet evidence of their effectiveness in identity governance is limited. We report results from the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating an AI agent…

General Economics · Economics 2025-11-19 James Bono , Beibei Cheng , Joaquin Lozano

The increasing deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other autonomous algorithmic systems presents the world with new systemic risks. While focus often lies on the function of individual algorithms, a critical and underestimated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Maurice Chiodo , Dennis Müller

Autonomy is a double-edged sword for AI agents, simultaneously unlocking transformative possibilities and serious risks. How can agent developers calibrate the appropriate levels of autonomy at which their agents should operate? We argue…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 K. J. Kevin Feng , David W. McDonald , Amy X. Zhang

AI-empowered tools have emerged as a transformative force, fundamentally reshaping the software development industry and promising far-reaching impacts across diverse sectors. This study investigates the adoption, impact, and security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shidong Pan , Litian Wang , Tianyi Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Yanjie Zhao , Qinghua Lu , Xiaoyu Sun

Indirect prompt injection attacks threaten AI agents that execute consequential actions, motivating deterministic system-level defenses. Such defenses can provably block unsafe actions by enforcing confidentiality and integrity policies,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Aashish Kolluri , Rishi Sharma , Manuel Costa , Boris Köpf , Tobias Nießen , Mark Russinovich , Shruti Tople , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin

Prominent AI companies are producing 'safety frameworks' as a type of voluntary self-governance. These statements purport to establish risk thresholds and safety procedures for the development and deployment of highly capable AI.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sam Coggins , Alexander K. Saeri , Katherine A. Daniell , Lorenn P. Ruster , Jessie Liu , Jenny L. Davis

The accelerating deployment of artificial intelligence systems across regulated sectors has exposed critical fragmentation in risk assessment methodologies. A significant "language barrier" currently separates technical security teams, who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hernan Huwyler

The more AI agents are deployed in scenarios with possibly unexpected situations, the more they need to be flexible, adaptive, and creative in achieving the goal we have given them. Thus, a certain level of freedom to choose the best path…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Francesca Rossi , Nicholas Mattei

This paper explores the role and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, specifically AI-based software elements, in autonomous driving systems. These AI systems are fundamental in executing real-time critical functions in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Mandar Pitale , Alireza Abbaspour , Devesh Upadhyay

The emerging paradigm of ``Agentic Employment" is a labor model where autonomous AI agents, acting as economic principals rather than mere management tools, directly hire, instruct, and pay human workers. Facilitated by the launch of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lik-Hang Lee

Agentic language-model systems increasingly rely on mutable execution contexts, including files, memory, tools, skills, and auxiliary artifacts, creating security risks beyond explicit user prompts. This paper presents DeepTrap, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongwei Yao , Yiming Liu , Yiling He , Bingrun Yang

The modern web stack, which is dominated by browser-based applications and API-first backends, now operates under an adversarial equilibrium where automated, AI-assisted attacks evolve continuously. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and edge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mehrab Hosain , Sabbir Alom Shuvo , Matthew Ogbe , Md Shah Jalal Mazumder , Yead Rahman , Md Azizul Hakim , Anukul Pandey

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems connected to sensor-laden devices are becoming pervasive, which has notable implications for a range of AI risks, including to privacy, the environment, autonomy and more. There is therefore a growing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mona Sloane , Emanuel Moss , Susan Kennedy , Matthew Stewart , Pete Warden , Brian Plancher , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Warning: This paper contains content that may be inappropriate or offensive. AI agents have gained significant recent attention due to their autonomous tool usage capabilities and their integration in various real-world applications. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ninareh Mehrabi , Tharindu Kumarage , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan , Rahul Gupta
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