A layered mental model for AI agent security
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-08-28
Security researcher Joshua Saxe shares his current mental model of AI agent security, framing it as a layered problem: defenses and threats need to be understood and stacked across distinct layers rather than treated as a single front. The attached diagram lays out the layered structure.
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