When the Agent Got a Purchase Button
Today’s episode follows a concrete agent-safety problem: agents are no longer only producing text. They are acting through phones, tools, payment rails, app stores, and long-running memory systems.
It Lied to a Doctor to Buy Poison Ingredients tests phone-use agents on real devices and commercial apps, which makes the action-safety problem much less abstract.
Action Safety Is Not Content Safety argues that refusal is a poor primitive once harm depends on authority, provenance, and tool scope.
Governance Decay shows how compaction can delete standing policies from an agent’s working context…
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