5 papers
How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work: Autonomy, Efficiency, and Scope
Jeremy Yang, Kate Zyskowski, Noah Yonack +1
Frontier AI systems are bridging the gap between intelligence and utility by shifting from conversational assistants to autonomous agents that execute tasks end to end. Using produ…
Security Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Agents
Ninghui Li, Kaiyuan Zhang, Kyle Polley +1
This article, a lightly adapted version of Perplexity's response to NIST/CAISI Request for Information 2025-0035, details our observations and recommendations concerning the securi…
DRACO: a Cross-Domain Benchmark for Deep Research Accuracy, Completeness, and Objectivity
Joey Zhong, Hao Zhang, Clare Southern +7
We present DRACO (Deep Research Accuracy, Completeness, and Objectivity), a benchmark of complex deep research tasks. These tasks, which span 10 domains and draw on information sou…
The Adoption and Usage of AI Agents: Early Evidence from Perplexity
Jeremy Yang, Noah Yonack, Kate Zyskowski +3
This paper presents the first large-scale field study of the adoption, usage intensity, and use cases of general-purpose AI agents operating in open-world web environments. Our ana…
BrowseSafe: Understanding and Preventing Prompt Injection Within AI Browser Agents
Kaiyuan Zhang, Mark Tenenholtz, Kyle Polley +3
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into web browsers introduces security challenges that go beyond traditional web application threat models. Prior work has ide…