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AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop — arXiv
- Key
- mitchell-ghosh-passi-2026-ai-agents-out-of-loop
- Authors
- Mitchell, Margaret; Ghosh, Avijit; Passi, Samir
- Issued
- 2026-8-24
- Type
- article
- Container
- arXiv
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.48550/arXiv.2608.23642",
"URL": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23642",
"type": "article",
"genre": "Position paper preprint",
"title": "AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop",
"author": [
{
"given": "Margaret",
"family": "Mitchell"
},
{
"given": "Avijit",
"family": "Ghosh"
},
{
"given": "Samir",
"family": "Passi"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
8,
24
]
]
},
"number": "2608.23642",
"container-title": "arXiv"
}
Claims
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Mitchell, Ghosh, and Passi list cognitive surrender alongside cognitive dependence and cognitive debt as recent terms for skill degradation from AI use, and propose rotating overseers between AI-assisted and unassisted tasks to prevent cognitive surrender from prolonged exposure to agentic AI.
"Recent terminology has crystallized additional patterns: "cognitive dependence" [44], "cognitive debt" [65], and "cognitive surrender" [102]. [...] Rotations move users between tasks, and between AI-assisted and unassisted versions of the same task, to prevent both fatigue and the cognitive surrender from prolonged exposure to agentic AI."
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