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

A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of leading AI ethics researchers argue. Though most autonomous agents have systems to keep users in the loop about their actions, in practice these processes actually push humans out of the loop, the authors argue in a paper posted to ArXiv on 6 September. In other words, “the human just becomes this meat tool to give permissions without the cognitive capability to engage,” says one of the authors, Avijit