The reasoning capabilities of embodied agents introduce a critical, under-explored inferential privacy challenge, where the risk of an agent generate sensitive conclusions from ambient data. This capability creates a fundamental tension between an agent's utility and user privacy, rendering traditional static controls ineffective. To address this, this position paper proposes a framework that reframes privacy as a dynamic learning problem grounded in theory of Contextual Integrity (CI). Our approach enables agents to proactively learn and adapt to individual privacy norms through interaction, outlining a research agenda to develop embodied agents that are both capable and function as trustworthy safeguards of user privacy.
@article{arxiv.2509.19041,
title = {Position: Human-Robot Interaction in Embodied Intelligence Demands a Shift From Static Privacy Controls to Dynamic Learning},
author = {Shuning Zhang and Hong Jia and Simin Li and Ting Dang and Yongquan `Owen' Hu and Xin Yi and Hewu Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.19041},
year = {2025}
}
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To be published in NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning