Computer scientists based in South Korea have devised what they describe as an "AI Kill Switch" to prevent AI agents from carrying out malicious data scraping.

Unlike network-based defenses that attempt to block ill-behaved web crawlers based on IP address, request headers, or other characteristics derived from analysis of bot behavior or associated data, the researchers propose using a more sophisticated form of indirect prompt injection to make bad bots back off.

Sechan Lee, an undergraduate computer scientist at Sungkyunkwan University, and Sangdon Park, assistant professor of Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence (GSAI) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, call their agent defense AutoGuard.

They describe the software in

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