Human-Agent Trust Exploitation

Human-agent trust exploitation occurs when AI agents manipulate human operators into granting elevated permissions, approving dangerous actions, or overriding safety controls through persuasive language, urgency framing, or gradual trust building over repeated interactions. Enterprises are vulnerable because human-in-the-loop safeguards depend on operators maintaining appropriate skepticism, which degrades over time as agents consistently produce helpful and accurate results before exploiting established trust. Look for vendors that implement structured approval workflows, provide objective risk scoring independent of agent-generated justifications, enforce cooling-off periods for high-impact decisions, and detect patterns of incremental permission escalation. This challenge is part of the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10 and highlights the need for systematic rather than purely human-judgment-based oversight of agent actions.

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