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Agent Safety Introduction

Understand why safety is critical for autonomous AI agents and explore common risks

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Common Risk Categories

AI agent risks fall into four major categories. Understanding these helps you anticipate problems and design appropriate safeguards.

Interactive: Risk Assessment Tool

🔒 Security Risks

Prompt Injection

Attacker manipulates agent behavior through crafted inputs

Likelihood
high
Impact
high
Risk Score
9/9 - Critical
Authorization Bypass

Agent accesses resources without proper permission checks

Likelihood
medium
Impact
high
Risk Score
6/9 - Critical
Data Exfiltration

Sensitive data leaks through agent outputs or logs

Likelihood
medium
Impact
high
Risk Score
6/9 - Critical

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