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Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out

IEEE Spectrum reports on the human-oversight position paper and makes its mechanism concrete: high agent output can overwhelm reviewers, while automation bias, anchoring and sycophancy can weaken independent judgement. It records proposed deliberate-friction measures such as making a user state a choice before seeing the agent plan, asking what evidence would change an approval, responding to shrinking approval time, and periodically doing work without agents or taking monitoring breaks. The article also supplies an important counterpoint from autonomy researcher Mary Cummings that these are longstanding human-factors and cognitive-engineering problems familiar from robotics and autonomous vehicles. It further records Margaret Mitchell's September 14 X post arguing that safety and capability should be integrated rather than treated as separate add-ons.

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