“increasing agent autonomy can gradually make human oversight ineffective by causing approval fatigue, overreliance, loss of situational awa…

“increasing agent autonomy can gradually make human oversight ineffective by causing approval fatigue, overreliance, loss of situational awareness, and skill degradation.” new paper from @mmitchell_ai et al that i fully agree with. New HuggingFace paper argues that increasing agent autonomy can gradually make human oversight ineffective by causing approval fatigue, overreliance, loss of situational awareness, and skill degradation. As agents do more, users are pushed into approval mode: skimming plans, gran…

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Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-09-01