We added a dimension for DeepMind's Agent Traps to our AI governance scanner
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Google DeepMind published "AI Agent Traps" (SSRN 6372438) on April 1, 2026. The paper documents 6 attack categories against autonomous AI agents: Content Injection - hidden HTML/CSS instructions Semantic Manipulation - authority framing, persona hyperstition Cognitive State - RAG poisoning, knowledge base contamination Behavioral Control - action hijacking, sub-agent spawning Systemic - flash crash patterns, fragment assembly Human-in-the-Loop - approval fatigue, summary deception We shipped D17 (Adversarial Resilience) in Warden on April 10.