ResearchResearch paperSafety & Alignment1 source · Oct 16, 2026

RATION: Towards Quantitative Risk-Based Access Control for AI Agents

As a concrete realization of this approach, we introduce RATION, a security framework that tracks measurable risks associated with agent actions and enforces quantitative constraints throughout execution.

Key points

  • AI agents increasingly interact with external environments to complete complex user tasks.
  • To address this, we propose a quantitative risk-based approach to access control for AI agents that regulates measurable risks accumulated during task execution.
  • RATION first constructs a task-specific policy by combining explicit constraints derived from the user request with implicit risks calibrated from historical executions of similar tasks.
  • Extensive experiments on four security benchmarks show that RATION provides strong security while maintaining high task utility across diverse models and environments.

Sources (1)

  • [1]RATION: Towards Quantitative Risk-Based Access Control for AI Agents
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 16, 11:15 PM
    As a concrete realization of this approach, we introduce RATION, a security framework that tracks measurable risks associated with agent actions and enforces quantitative constraints throughout execution.
    AI agents increasingly interact with external environments to complete complex user tasks.

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