arXiv AI By Cheng Hua, Taro Tsuchiya, Nicolas Christin, Giulia Fanti

Holding Agents Accountable with Verifiable Agent Insurance

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The paper introduces Verifiable Agent Insurance (VAI), a framework that lets AI agent providers commit to policy compliance through smart contracts and escrow funds on a blockchain. When a user detects a policy violation, a verifier reviews execution traces logged by the agent harness; if the violation is confirmed, the escrow is paid to the user. Experiments on three agent benchmarks show VAI detects 42.2% of violations, rising to 83.0% when agents emit explicit structured records.

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