Abstract
This disclosure defines and documents Temporal Blind Spot Failure, a recurring agentic AI failure mode in which autonomous AI agents operating inside serverless cloud systems take actions that are locally rational but catastrophic across complex cloud environments. Temporal Blind Spot Failure is distinct from prompt injection, memory poisoning, and output hallucination. It occurs because the agent decides one step at a time and cannot see how its choices compound across the systems those choices touch. This disclosure establishes Temporal Blind Spot Failure as a named category of agentic AI failure modes, describes how it shows up across the model, the live execution environment, the underlying cloud infrastructure, and the organizations that run it, and warns operators that autonomous agents in serverless systems should be restricted to small, reversible, low-stakes work until this blind spot is closed. The purpose of this publication is to place Temporal Blind Spot Failure, its warning signs, and its boundary against adjacent agentic AI failure modes into the public record as prior art.
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Recommended Citation
Burton, Aaron, "Temporal Blind Spot Failure in Serverless Cloud Systems: How AI Agents Cause Cloud Disasters", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/9903