The Safety Theatre of Agentic AI

Or: how we learned to stop worrying and deploy the benchmark

In January, researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Fujitsu presented FieldWorkArena at the AAAI conference in Singapore. A benchmark designed to measure whether AI agents are safe enough to field in live industrial settings. Factories. Warehouses. Places where the wrong answer doesn’t embarrass the product manager but puts someone in a sling.

FieldWorkArena …