Can Agents Be Safe in the Open? Two Levels of Trust
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Speaker: Audrey Tang, Vitalik
Type: Panel
Expertise: No prior knowledge
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2026
Audrey Tang and Vitalik Buterin climb toward that question one level at a time, taking the questions the room upvotes in the Meerkat they share with Audrey's talk, which runs just before.
Level one covers everyday failures: an agent that makes a mistake, or one tricked from outside. Level two is the hard case, where no one can simply take the model makers' word, and asks what anyone can still check.