Google Research report maps agentic privacy and security challenges
Google Research published a workshop report on agentic privacy and security, drawing on over 50 academic and industry participants from the late-2025 Contextual Agent Privacy and Security Workshop in New York City. It outlines open research directions at system, model, user, and ecosystem levels, citing unstructured interfaces, input ambiguity, prompt injection, and probabilistic control flows as core challenges.
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“To be useful, AI agents must understand and be constrained by contextual behavioral norms to ensure they act appropriately.”
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