AI Agent Security: Differentiating User Instructions from Untrusted Sources
paul_cal · x · 2026-08-09
Countering claims that AI agent security is "unsolvable," the author argues models simply need to reliably differentiate between direct user instructions and external, potentially untrustworthy sources. For instance, executing a user's command to install software, but taking precautions if the request originates from a GitHub comment.
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