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AI Agents May Always Fall for Prompt Injections

A 2026 theoretical argument that context-sensitive information flows make prompt injection unsolvable in general, proposing contextual-integrity-aware alignment instead.

Under reviewcontextual integrityimpossibilityagents

Research question

Is there a fundamental limit to defending agents against prompt injection?

Key findings

  • Framing injection as a contextual-integrity problem yields an impossibility result: an adversary can always construct a context in which a blocked flow looks legitimate - Defences that suppress engagement with external content can also suppress reporting of suspicious content

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