arXiv AI By Aditya Katkar, Om Karkele, Kartik Mandhane, Manisha More, Yash Kashid

NiyamAI - An Intent-Bound AI Agent with Cryptographically Verifiable Guardrails using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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arXiv:2608. 07167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Giving an AI agent the ability to send emails, query databases, or execute commands is useful--until the agent is tricked into doing something it shouldn't.

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