Multi-Agent Security Workshop @ DAI'25

Abstract

Decentralised AI is shifting from isolated agents to networks of interacting agents operating across shared platforms and protocols. This creates security challenges beyond traditional cybersecurity and single-agent safety, where free-form communication and tool use are essential for task generalisation yet open new system-level failure modes. These security vulnerabilities complicate attribution and oversight, and network effects can turn local issues into per- sistent, systemic risks (e.g., privacy leaks, jailbreak propagation, distributed attacks, or secret collusion). The workshop will address open challenges in multi-agent security [1, MASEC] as a discipline dedicated to securing interactions among agents, human–AI teams, and institutions—emphasising security–performance–coordination trade-offs, secure interaction protocols and environments, and monitoring/containment that remain effective under emergent behaviour. The main focus will lie on threat model discovery through community interaction.

Christian Schroeder de Witt

EPSRC Open Fellow (incoming), Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Schmidt Sciences AI 2050 Early Career Fellow. Associate Member of Faculty, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. PI, Oxford Witt Lab.

I am the PI of Oxford Witt Lab.