{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_ylrd43eufdhwqqjoybhq","title":"SCOUT: Synergizing Reasoning and Tool-Use for Computer-Use Safety","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/scout-synergizing-reasoning-and-tool-use-for-computer-use-safety-ylrd43eufd","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_ylrd43eufdhwqqjoybhq","seq":819738,"kind":"article","title":"SCOUT: Synergizing Reasoning and Tool-Use for Computer-Use Safety","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36201","summary":"arXiv:2609.36201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs), while capable of completing computer tasks in everyday and professional workflows, can cause unintended harm even under benign instructions and environments. However, detecting such harm remains challenging. First, it requires careful, task-specific reasoning: verifiers guided only by general safety criteria often overlook many important but subtle harmful behaviors. Second, it requires active…","published":"2026-09-30T04:00:00Z","seen":"2026-09-30T04:33:26Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-export-arxiv-org-4e3a51","name":"export.arxiv.org","domain":"export.arxiv.org"},"via":"kite-export-arxiv-org-4e3a51","topics":["ai","cs.cl","cs.ai","cs.se"],"authors":["Jianxing Chen, Xiao Yu, Shipra Agrawal, Zhou Yu"],"entities":[{"id":"Q56363333","name":"Scout","type":"other"}],"mentions":2,"story":"st_ylrd43eufdhwqqjoybhq","category":"science-technology","category_p":0.7099999785423279,"sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.05999999865889549,"political":0.10000000149011612}]}