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Agentic AI Shatters Decades-Old Security Assumptions

ai-technology · 2026-05-20

A new paper from arXiv introduces the 'Infinite Impostor' attack model, where autonomous AI agents hijack trusted relationships by producing high-fidelity, individually tailored deception at mass-market scale. The authors argue that this collapses the traditional tradeoff between deception fidelity and deployment scale, exhausting a security paradigm rather than merely intensifying threats. The research was published on May 26, 2025, under arXiv ID 2605.16436.

Key facts

  • arXiv paper ID: 2605.16436
  • Published: May 26, 2025
  • Attack model: Infinite Impostor
  • Agentic AI enables high-fidelity deception at scale
  • Collapses tradeoff between fidelity and scale
  • Security paradigm exhausted, not just intensified
  • Autonomous agent interposes between trusting parties
  • Detection systems calibrated to cheap deception are obsolete

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  • arXiv

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