Reza Shokri is a Research Scientist at Google. His current research focuses on privacy, safety, and security of AI agents. For his work on privacy, he is a recipient of the ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award 2025, IEEE S&P Test-of-Time Award 2021, and Caspar Bowden Award 2018. List of publications is available on Google Scholar.
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The vision of an ecosystem of general and highly capable autonomous agents challenges
accepted principles of secure and privacy-preserving system engineering. Inspired by the
theory of Contextual Integrity, we argue that in order for agents to act appropriately, their
behaviors should comply with societal norms and expectations. This manuscript explores
contextual approaches to engineering agentic systems that embody an understanding of
societal norms and uphold the appropriateness of actions by design. It presents a list of
key open research problems in this area to create awareness among the broader research
community across academia, government, and industry.View details