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AI safety should shift from training to runtime contracts, paper argues

A new paper argues that AI safety should be enforced through runtime contracts rather than solely during the training phase. The authors propose a two-pronged approach: a preventive face that blocks dangerous actions before they occur using sandboxes and filters, and an evidential face that requires verifiable proof of safe actions. This perspective is supported by evidence from AI safety incidents, audits of agent systems, and a review of academic publications, suggesting that agentic AI faces similar pressures to communities like computer security and experimental science, which have adopted runtime contracts. AI

IMPACT This research suggests a shift in AI safety focus from model training to runtime enforcement, potentially impacting how AI agents are developed and deployed.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper proposing a new approach to AI safety.

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AI safety should shift from training to runtime contracts, paper argues

COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Albus W. Ng, Yi Han, Jusheng Zhang, Wenhao Wang ·

    Agent Safety Should Be a Runtime Contract

    arXiv:2608.11274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The dominant paradigm treats AI safety as a property to be instilled during model training via RLHF, DPO, or Constitutional AI. We argue this is structurally insufficient for autonomous agents that execute code, mutate files, send…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Agent Safety Should Be a Runtime Contract

    Agent safety should be enforced at runtime through preventive controls and verifiable evidence rather than relying solely on training-time alignment methods.