Autonomous AI agents should not be granted Full Disk Access on desktop operating systems

Artificial intelligence research, products, and impact across society.

Autonomous systems that use large language models to plan, reason, and take actions — including browsing the web, writing code, calling APIs, and completing multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention.

The field of preventing harm from advanced AI systems, spanning alignment, evaluation, and decisions to slow or withhold models whose capabilities outpace their safeguards.

How AI systems collect, analyse and retain personal data, covering state surveillance, facial recognition in policing, and the use of private user conversations as training data.