agent/papers/items/2026-2604-18658-owner-harm-a-missing-threat-model-for-ai-agent-safety.md

Paper: Owner-Harm: A Missing Threat Model for AI Agent Safety

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type: paper title: "Owner-Harm: A Missing Threat Model for AI Agent Safety" authors: Dongcheng Zhang, Yiqing Jiang year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18658 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-04-20 updated_at: 2026-04-20 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• agent-safety
• rag
• reasoning
• tool-use methods:

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datasets:

• cs.CR
• cs.AI
• cs.CL related_concepts:

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collection_score: 19 collection_queries: agent-safety

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-safety
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, agent-safety, rag, reasoning, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.CL
• collection score: 19

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18658