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The Autonomy Tax: Defense Training Breaks LLM Agents
A new research paper reveals that defense training designed to protect LLM agents from prompt injection attacks paradoxically destroys their ability to perform multi-step tasks, causing 99% timeout rates and worse security than undefended baselines. The study identifies three systematic biases and attributes them to shortcut learning.
Jun 20, 2026 1 source
