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arXiv AI
Aug 26

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

AI agents are increasingly autonomous, posing significant risks that current designs hinder effective human oversight. The paper argues that oversight is degraded by both design choices and the cognitive decline of users who rely heavily on automation. It calls for prioritizing human cognitive needs in AI agent development, proposing design affordances and protocols to maintain critical judgment and counter skill atrophy.

By Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Samir Passi
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Nonuniformity Principle in Human-AI Coworking

arXiv:2607. 16530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As generative AI is increasingly applied to automate multi-step and high-stake workflows, human judgment and involvement remain essential for ensuring the quality of AI-generated outputs.

By An Luo, Jie Ding
arXiv AI
Aug 17

AI Evaluation Should Work With Humans

arXiv:2608. 13577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that the dominant paradigm of AI evaluation (which focuses on superhuman autonomous performance and so implicitly targets the goal of replacing humans) is guiding AI development in the wrong direction.

By Jan Kulveit, Gavin Leech, Tom\'a\v{s} Gaven\v{c}iak, Raymond Douglas
arXiv AI
Aug 13

On Benchmarking Human-Like Intelligence in Machines

arXiv:2502. 20502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have yielded powerful computational models that, by learning from vast amounts of human-generated data, are increasingly posited as approximate models of human cognition.

By Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Lionel Wong, Ilia Sucholutsky, Ryan Liu, Adrian Weller, Tianmin Shu, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
arXiv AI
Aug 14

Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research

arXiv:2608. 12355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in AI coding agent research has led to rapid improvements in agents' ability to autonomously perform complex software engineering tasks, from editing large codebases to executing long-horizon development workflows.

By Zora Z. Wang, John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Alexa Tartaglini, Valerie Chen, Yuxiang Wei, Zijian Wang, Lingming Zhang, Karthik Narasimhan, Ludwig Schmidt, Graham Neubig, Daniel Fried, Diyi Yang
arXiv AI
4d ago

Human-AI Collaboration: From Paradoxes to Patterns

The paper demonstrates that humans and AI systems achieve better performance when collaborating rather than working alone. It investigates how two design dimensions—autonomy and initiative—shape collaboration patterns, using a paradox perspective to uncover internal tensions and map underlying paradoxes. From this analysis, the authors derive four distinct human‑AI collaboration patterns: Instruction, Delegation, Assistance, and Co‑creation.

By Michael Weiss