AI Agent Permission Systems Conflate Access Control With Authority
A discussion argues that AI agent frameworks treat what is really a question of delegated authority, who legitimately instructed an agent to act, as if it were a simple access-permissions problem, leaving a conceptual gap in how agent actions are authorized. The post is a title-only framing with no elaboration on concrete failure cases.
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