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Excessive agency

GENSEC05: How do you prevent excessive agency for models?

Excessive Agency is an Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 security threat for LLMs and is typically introduced to systems through agentic architectures. Agents are designed to take action on behalf of a user. The risk of excessive agency is that an agent could take actions beyond their intended purpose.