The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of InterpretationHypertext theory has historically assumed a human reader: someone who navigates links by choice, brings cultural skepticism to paratextual framing, and feels it when something is different.
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- 10.1145/3800935.3830883
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- 979-8-4007-2564-7
- name
- The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of Interpretation
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- acm_url
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830883
- authors
- Meha Gupta, Akshat Joshi
- doi_url
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830883
- license
- CC BY 4.0
- summary
- Hypertext theory has historically assumed a human reader: someone who navigates links by choice, brings cultural skepticism to paratextual framing, and feels it when something is different.
- keywords
- Hypertext; Machine Readership; Intra-action; AI Agents; Adversarial Web; Paratext; Cybersecurity
- published
- 2026-09-14
- conference
- HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830883
- ccs_concepts
- CCS Concepts: • Information systems → Hypertext / hypermedia ; • Security and privacy → Web application security ; • Security and privacy → Social engineering attacks ; • Information systems~World Wide Web; • Human-centered computing~User models;
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- Meha Gupta, Akshat Joshi
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- https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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- 2026-09-14
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- ACM Reference Format: Meha Gupta and Akshat Joshi. 2026. The Assumed Reader: AI Agents, Hypertext, and the Vulnerable Limits of Interpretation. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830883
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