WHY AI AGENTS NEED BETTER GUARDRAILS

AI agents are a bit like brand-new, super-keen interns.

They haven’t read the handbook, but want to help, and they can act umpteen times before you start your coffee.

But if there’s a hidden instruction in an email, they might think it’s part of the job and just crack on.

To the model, documents and commands are the same kind of thing. And unless the surrounding system imposes a boundary, it might obey the wrong ones.

The cost of those mistakes depend on what the agents can reach.

And our new post, ‘The intern moves at the speed of light’, follows that chain from hidden instruction to action.

It then sets out available controls and offers a few questions you can answer about your own agents.

You can read the full article The Intern Moves at the Speed of Light on our Substack.