MobileWorldSafety is a benchmark that evaluates the safety of large language model–powered GUI agents on Android by exposing them to 142 real-world risk tasks involving environmental injection attacks. The benchmark uses a two‑stage verification pipeline—rule‑based checks for clear cases and an LLM judge for ambiguous ones—to distinguish safety failures from capability failures. Experiments on six agents show high vulnerability, with attack success rates between 40.4% and 66.9%, highlighting that current agents often fail to remain safe when faced with adversarial content presented as normal mobile context.
By Sujin Chen, Lijun Li, Tianyi Du, Jing Shao
arXiv:2601. 12349v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large multimodal model powered GUI agents are emerging as high-privilege operators on mobile platforms, entrusted to perceive screen content and inject inputs across application boundaries.
By Yi Qian, Kunwei Qian, Xingbang He, Ligeng Chen, Jikang Zhang, Tiantai Zhang, Haiyang Wei, Linzhang Wang, Hao Wu, Bing Mao
arXiv:2606. 12666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Screenshot-based mobile GUI agents can operate ordinary smartphone apps through the same visual interface as a human user, but this capability also turns every screen observation into a privacy boundary.
By Siyu Shen, Fenghao Xu, Wenrui Diao, Kehuan Zhang
arXiv:2510. 24411v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computer-using agents powered by Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated human-like capabilities in operating digital environments like mobile platforms.
By Qiushi Sun, Mukai Li, Zhoumianze Liu, Zhihui Xie, Fangzhi Xu, Zhangyue Yin, Kanzhi Cheng, Zehao Li, Zichen Ding, Qi Liu, Zhiyong Wu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Ben Kao, Lingpeng Kong
AI agents are driving a new software paradigm, with the ability to autonomously call tools, extract information, manage memory, and complete tasks that span applications and data sources. Most existing end-user operating systems, however, are designed for application-centric workflows and offer little native support for AI agents.
AgentLens is a mobile GUI agent that adapts its visual communication during task execution, offering Full UI, Partial UI, and GenUI modalities. It uses a Virtual Display to allow background operation while selectively overlaying visual information. In a study with 21 participants, 85.7% preferred AgentLens, which also scored highest on usability and adoption intent.
By Jeonghyeon Kim, Byeongjun Joung, Junwon Lee, Joohyung Lee, Taehoon Min, Sunjae Lee