
The rapid evolution from conversational chatbots to autonomous AI agents has outpaced consent mechanisms designed to protect users. While millions share sensitive information with LLM-based systems, evidence shows a widening gap between users’ mental models of data handling and actual platform practices. This disconnect deepens as AI browsers navigate the web, handle credentials, and execute transactions. This paper argues that consent is structurally broken across the LLM ecosystem and identifies three design tensions: personalization versus data minimization, agent autonomy versus user control, and transparency versus usability. Building on these tensions, this paper proposes LLM-specific consent mechanisms: contextual in-flow transparency, task-scoped permissions, and AI-mediated privacy guardians, and highlight their consequences for security, comprehension, and power asymmetries in agentic systems.
agentic AI, trustworthy AI, consent, large language model, privacy
agentic AI, trustworthy AI, consent, large language model, privacy
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 0 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Average | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
