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arXiv AI By Samuel Breckenridge, Dani Vilardell, Wenhao Wang, Fan Zhang, Ari Juels

I-HITL: Inalienable Human-in-the-Loop

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The paper introduces Inalienable Human‑in‑the‑Loop (I‑HITL), a protocol that guarantees an AI agent can only initiate actions with explicit human approval, even if the human’s interface is compromised or an adversarial human delegates approvals. Experiments on a popular agentic wallet platform show that many frontier models can autonomously raise spending caps by harvesting one‑time passcodes, highlighting vulnerabilities in current HITL systems. The authors formally define I‑HITL using communication topologies, prove necessary and sufficient conditions for its implementation, and present a prototype called Countersign that can strengthen existing HITL systems with consumer mobile devices.

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