alt Hacker NewsI think there might be also another possible way to handle the sensitive data issue. Maybe in the future instead of putting agent into the cloud sandboxes, we let agents work locally and put sensitive data into "cages" or "vaults" agents can't access.
Replies
pixl97 • yesterday at 9:55 PM
>data into "cages" or "vaults" agents can't access.
This is likely worse as it turns people into the kind of "3 laws safe" thinking. Reality has shown us there is no such thing as an unbreakable cage (well, maybe a black hole is, but you can't get anything back out of it in a useful time frame).
By the time you realize the cage was flawed your data may already be distributed far and wide.
➕ show 1 reply
Both Apple and Google are building the infrastructure for on device agents. I'm not as familiar with Apple's approach, but I've been hands-on with android AppFunctions. If you're familiar with Android ContentProviders and bound services, you've seen how apps can be custodians of the data they acquire and use.
AppFunctions enable tool calling with descriptions that are legible to LLM based This puts the apps in control of what agents can access, which is something they already mostly do.