arXiv AI

The Boundaries of Automation: A Theory of Persistent Human Participation

arXiv:2607. 21547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of AI has intensified the long-standing pursuit of automation: replacing human participation with algorithms wherever possible.

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
Jun 15

The Silent Cost of Artificial Intelligence Assistance: A Theory of Autonomy Surrender, the Recovery Mechanism, and the Restoration of Human Agency

arXiv:2606. 13962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into human decision-making environments has introduced a previously undertheorized cost: the gradual surrender of human autonomy in exchange for access to information and computational assistance.

By Ancuta Margondai, Julie Rader, Emma Rader, Sara Willox, Mustapha Mouloua
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
arXiv AI
Jun 12

From AGI to ASI

arXiv:2606. 12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the last decade, building human-level artificial general intelligence has moved from far-fetched speculation to being a concrete next-decade target for many of the largest AI organisations.

By Tim Genewein, Matija Franklin, Alexander Lerchner, Laurent Orseau, Samuel Albanie, Adam Bales, Cole Wyeth, Stephanie Chan, Iason Gabriel, Joel Z. Leibo, Allan Dafoe, Marcus Hutter, Thore Graepel, Shane Legg
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Role-Aware Artificial Intelligence Across Augmentation and Automation in Human-Machine Symbiosis

The paper explores how to trace the functional role of AI in natural language generation, distinguishing between AI acting as an assistive editor or a creative generator. It proposes a methodology that infers the latent role from prompts, embeds it during generation, and recovers the role from the output. Experiments demonstrate that the approach can discriminate roles, remains robust to perturbations, and preserves linguistic quality.

By Ching-Chun Chang, Yuchen Guo, Hanrui Wang, Timo Spinde, Isao Echizen
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Autonomy, Social Norms, and Alignment: Towards a Developmental Framework for Autonomous Artificial Agents

The paper proposes a developmental framework for autonomous artificial agents that emphasizes learning social norms and alignment through direct interaction with dynamic environments. It argues that intrinsic motivations such as curiosity and competence can guide exploration, but also complicate alignment with human goals. By drawing parallels to child development, the authors suggest that regulatory sandboxes serve as pedagogical spaces where agents gradually acquire moral agency and adapt their behaviors through experience and cooperation.

By Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence

The paper introduces Atria Dawn Preview, a foundation agentic language model aimed at scientific research and engineering workflows. Trained through a Verifiable Experience Pipeline, it performs competitively across 16 real‑world benchmarks, achieving the highest scores on five. The authors also present a detailed case study of human–AI collaboration, showing that while AI proposes methods and revisions, humans retain final decision‑making and guide the research direction.

By Honglin Guo, Tao Gui, Yicheng Chen, Guanting Dong, Qiming Ge, Yuyang Hu, Zixian Huang, Jiajie Jin, Alexander Lam, Yining Li, Jiahang Lin, Yanjiang Liu, Xinyu Lu, Haijun Lv, Junlin Shang, Qisheng Su, Guoqiang Wang, Rui Wang, Zhecan Wang, Hao Xiang, Xinchen Xie, Shuhao Xing, Xiaoyu Xing, Wanghan Xu, Xinyu Yang, Yajie Yang, Chengfeng Zhao, Haoran Zhao, Ruojun Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Yicheng Zou, Kun Cai, Qiye Cai, Xinmeng Che, Haodong Chen, Jiabei Chen, Jiahao Chen, Jiayi Chen, Yujia Chen, Lizhi Cui, Youheng Dai, Xin Deng, Yi Dong, Shihan Dou, Chenya Gu, Xu Guo, Ding Han, Feiyang Hao, Haotan He, Jie Hou, Binze Hu, Zijian Hu, Junhao Huang, Huicheng Jiang, Jiazhen Jiang, Shufan Jiang, Jiahao Kuang, Bowen Lai, Bo Li, Jiaqiang Li, Peng Li, Qilong Li, Zhuoqun Li, Jiaxiang Liu, Shuainan Liu, Tong Liu, Yi Liu, Zhonghang Lu, Jianwen Luo, Yanyi Luo, Huijie Lv, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Houcheng Min, Chengjun Pan, Qiyuan Peng, Xiaoxuan Peng, Jianmin Qian, Jiantao Qiu, Wanying Ren, Huayu Sha, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Bing Shao, Zhuohui Sheng, Jiayang Shi, Yang Shu, Aierpanjiang Simayi, Sirui Song, Yuxiao Song, Zhe Sun, Zhichao Sun, Wenzhe Tan, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Hanchen Wang, Pengbo Wang, Rui Wang, Yiding Wang, Yuhui Wang, Zhiheng Xi, Caijun Xu, Chao Xu, Yongfeng Xu, Xiaolei Yang, Zhixiong Yang, Qian Yao, Shihong Yi, Yuankai Ying, Jia Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Hao Yuan, Junjie Yuan, Bo Zhang, Caixian Zhang, Qiuyinzhe Zhang, Jiyuan Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Ying Zhao, Pujun Zheng, Xiaoxue Zhong, Xiaohao Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Guanru Zhu, Yulun Zhu, Yaojie Lu, Tao Ji, Hongyu Lin, Yutao Zhu, Pengfei Cao, Guoxiu He, Xianpei Han, Ben He, Zhicheng Dou, Kang Liu, Qi Zhang, Le Sun, Jun Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Bowen Zhou
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
Jun 9

Scaling Participation in Modular AI Systems

arXiv:2606. 07812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanity is a mosaic of multifaceted talents and needs, and any truly intelligent AI must reflect that richness.

By Shangbin Feng, Yike Wang, Weijia Shi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov