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Avi Chawla·2026-02-26 19:41

RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)A 37-year-old paper is trending now in AI!In that paper, a computer scientist named Norm Hardy described something called the "confused deputy problem."The idea is simple: a program with legitimate access gets tricked into misusing that access on behalf of someone who shouldn't have it.The program has the authority to act, but it can't tell whether a given request is legitimate or not.For decades, this was an obscure concept in security textbooks. Then we started giving AI agents ...

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