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Morning Edition · Friday, August 28, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York
New Benchmark Tests Whether Computer-Use Agents Refuse Traps and Ask When Instructions Are Vague
ADeptS-Bench pairs benign and malicious versions of the same task with threats embedded in the visual interface, and separately scores whether an agent seeks clarification instead of guessing.
Agents that drive real desktop and mobile applications on a user's behalf are now shipping in commercial products, and the evaluations covering them mostly measure task completion. ADeptS-Bench, posted to arXiv on Friday, tests two things t…
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