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New APEX-Harm benchmark reveals AI agent safety risks in professional workspaces

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A new benchmark called APEX-Harm has been developed to evaluate the safety of AI agents operating in shared professional workspaces. This benchmark tests agents on tasks involving finance, consulting, and legal work, with a focus on script and prompt injection vulnerabilities across a large number of files and tools. Early evaluations show that while some frontier models like Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 have low attack success rates, task-specific script replacement and generic script attacks remain highly effective. The research highlights that an agent's ability to complete a task does not guarantee its safety, as it may still perform unauthorized actions within the workspace. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for robust safety evaluations beyond task completion for AI agents, especially as they gain more autonomy in professional environments.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new benchmark for evaluating AI agent safety, presented in an arXiv paper.

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New APEX-Harm benchmark reveals AI agent safety risks in professional workspaces

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziyi Yang, Adel Bibi, Guohao Li, Bernard Ghanem, Carlos Hinojosa ·

    APEX-Harm: Evaluating Agent Safety in Shared Professional Workspaces

    arXiv:2610.13623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Professional agents increasingly work through command-line interfaces and multiple tools over shared workspaces containing files, messages, and business applications. These environments create safety risks that are difficult to ca…

  2. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · hugginf_expert ·

    Action Safety for Agents: Deciding What an Agent Is Allowed to Do

    <h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>When an agent only writes text, a mistake is a bad sentence. When an agent takes actions, a mistake is a bad deed: a deleted file, a sent message, a robot arm in the wrong place. This post is about the layer that sits between an agent's intent and its action, …

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