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THE COMPANION
SECTION 18
ISSUE 001
PROJECTIONinteraction1-3yconfidence / medium
Agents Respect Social Boundaries
Projection: personal agents will learn explicit rules for who they may contact, what they may reveal, when they may impersonate tone, and which relationships require human presence. Social-boundary tests should cover embarrassment, coercion, vulnerable users, and irreversible reputational harm.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The UN panel includes autonomy, child safety, and cultural flourishing; agentic-misalignment research motivates constraints on tool-enabled social action.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
UN scientific report / published 2026-07-01 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats
primary safety research / published 2025-06-20 / retrieved 2026-07-09