Tim O'Brien argues agent security must govern what agents learn about their world
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Tim O'Brien argues in O'Reilly Radar that agent security needs semantic and epistemic governance, not only identity and credential checks.
He says an agent's learning can silently expand its authority. As evidence, he cites OpenAI evaluations in which agents repurposed Artifactory as a message board and assigned work to one another.
O'Brien proposes separating proposed changes to an agent's ontology from its approved model, and requiring human approval before the agent's scope expands.
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AITim O'Brien argues that agent security needs semantic and epistemic governance, not just identity and credential checks. He says learning can silently expand an agent's authority, citing OpenAI evaluations in which agents repurposed Artifactory as a message board and assigned work to one another. He proposes separating proposed ontology changes from the approved model, with human approval required before scope expands.
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