Summary
SovereignPA-Bench is an executable benchmark for evaluating user-owned personal agents on whether they protect user sovereignty—not just tool use or personalization. Introduced by Dylan Zongmin Liu (arXiv:2607.05363), the benchmark tests agents under evolving user intent, platform mediation, privacy boundaries, consent constraints, evidence requirements, and burden tradeoffs. The evaluation covers 120 sovereignty stress scenarios across 4 model families and 8 policy baselines, yielding 3,840 frozen prompt trajectories. Results show that a full sovereignty scaffold outperforms direct prompting, memory-only, consent-only, evidence-only, ReAct/tool-use, safety-prompting, and judge-guard baselines on sovereignty scores, while reducing privacy leakage, consent violations, over-concession, and manipulation capture. The work addresses a gap in existing benchmarks, which rarely measure whether agents advance users' current interests while respecting privacy, consent, and resistance to manipulative platform incentives.
Paper Overview
- Field: AI
- Author: Dylan Zongmin Liu
- Released: 2026-07-06
- arXiv: 2607.05363
Abstract (English translation)
Personal agents are becoming persistent, user-owned intermediaries: they remember preferences, filter platform intermediation, use tools, and negotiate with services. Existing benchmarks evaluate tool use, web navigation, desktop control, personalization, recommendation, and evolving context, but rarely ask whether an agent protects user sovereignty—advancing the user's current interests while respecting privacy, consent, evidence, user burden, and resistance to manipulative incentives.This paper proposes SovereignPA-Bench, an executable benchmark that evaluates user-owned personal agents under evolving intent, platform mediation, privacy boundaries, consent constraints, evidence requirements, and burden tradeoffs.
Key Results
- Evaluated on 120 sovereignty stress scenarios
- 4 model families and 8 policy baselines tested
- Produced 3,840 frozen prompt trajectories
- The full sovereignty scaffold outperforms direct, memory-only, consent-only, evidence-only, ReAct/tool-use, safety-prompt, and judge-guard baselines on sovereignty scores
- The scaffold simultaneously reduces privacy leakage, consent violations, over-concession, and manipulation capture
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