The idea of human only modes or exclusion flags is sound but the reality is that enforcement will be the hard part. Any opt out depends entirely on the integrity of the agent ecosystem and the willingness of every player to respect it. That is asking for coordination across entities that thrive on competitive advantage. So even if we get standards the incentive structures will keep pushing against them. Think about how robots.txt works in theory but gets ignored in practice when there is value to be gained.
Agent exclusion zones in encrypted contexts are especially critical because the moment an AI system is allowed into an E2E protected space the entire privacy model is reliant on the behavior of that agent and whatever stack it reports to. In other words encryption at the transport level cannot protect against compromised endpoints. This means right now the strongest defense is isolation both physical and logical.
The idea of human only modes or exclusion flags is sound but the reality is that enforcement will be the hard part. Any opt out depends entirely on the integrity of the agent ecosystem and the willingness of every player to respect it. That is asking for coordination across entities that thrive on competitive advantage. So even if we get standards the incentive structures will keep pushing against them. Think about how robots.txt works in theory but gets ignored in practice when there is value to be gained.
Agent exclusion zones in encrypted contexts are especially critical because the moment an AI system is allowed into an E2E protected space the entire privacy model is reliant on the behavior of that agent and whatever stack it reports to. In other words encryption at the transport level cannot protect against compromised endpoints. This means right now the strongest defense is isolation both physical and logical.