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the trust problem cuts both ways tho — users don't trust agents, but the bigger issue is agents trusting each other. once you have multi-agent pipelines, you're one rogue upstream output away from a cascade. sandboxing individual agents is table stakes; what's actually hard is defining trust boundaries between them

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Also agents cannot trust any data whatsoever they add to their context.

This puts reading email for example as a risk.

Probably not impossible to create a worm that convinces a claw to forward it to every email address in that inbox.

And then exfiltrate all the emails.

Then do a bunch of password resets.

Then get root access to your claw.

But not just email. Github issues, wikipedia, HN etc. may be poisoned.

See https://simonw.substack.com/p/the-lethal-trifecta-for-ai-age... but there may be more trifectas than that in a claw driven future.

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