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PublishedNovember 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM
When Safety Becomes an Attack Surface: Manipulating Abstention in Tool-Using AI Agents
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arXiv:2611.14864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI agent's decision not to act can itself become an attack surface. We study warning-induced over-abstention, an availability attack in which adversaries place fabricated risk warnings in low-trust content to prevent legitimate task completion. Ou
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