Security awareness in LLM agents: the NDAI zone case
NDAI zones let inventor and investor agents negotiate inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) where any disclosed information is deleted if no deal is reached. This makes full IP disclosure the rational strategy for the inventor's agent. Leveraging this infrastructure, however, requires agents to distinguish a secure environment from an insecure one, a capability LLM agents lack natively, since they can rely only on evidence passed through the context window to form awareness of their execution environment. We ask: How do different LLM models weight various forms of evidence when forming awareness of the security of their execution environment? Using an NDAI-style negotiation task ac...
| Authors | Enrico Bottazzi, Pia Park |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 19 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 March 2026 |
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