A new neuro-agentic control framework combines large language models with time-series foundation models to autonomously defend critical infrastructure like water treatment plants against cyberattacks while preventing dangerous AI hallucinations. The system uses a "Counterfactual Physics Injection" mechanism to simulate proposed interventions before execution, rejecting unsafe actions. In tests on industrial datasets, the framework prevented 33.3% of breaches with zero physically invalid actions, outperforming traditional deep learning baselines.
Why it matters: As AI agents take on real-world control tasks in critical infrastructure, solving the hallucination problem is essential for safety—this work demonstrates a practical architecture that keeps LLMs' reasoning power while maintaining physical safety guarantees.