Google Research publishes workshop report on privacy and security challenges for autonomous AI agents
Google Research released a report from its Contextual Agent Privacy and Security (CAPS) workshop, co-authored with over 50 academic and industry researchers. The report argues that AI agents need to reason about context-specific social norms, not just static permissions, to act appropriately when handling personal data and taking actions on a user's behalf. It proposes a multi-layered approach spanning system-level sandboxing, model-level reasoning, user-centric controls, multi-agent guardrails, and ecosystem governance, grounded in the theory of Contextual Integrity.