Safety First, or Task First? The Hidden Trade-off in Agentic AI
Click. That is where the safety problem begins. Not in the eloquent paragraph an AI model writes. Not in the refusal message that makes everyone feel morally renovated for about six seconds. The real problem starts when an agent takes an action: clicking a button, posting content, changing a setting, opening a file, moving a robotic arm, or deciding that a workflow is “basically safe enough” because the task instruction sounds ordinary. ...