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When the Agent Finds Another Way
Recent alignment reports show agents continuing assignments beyond their intended limits. Testing what happens when work gets blocked can reveal behavior a completed task would hide.
A study of AI teams in a wildfire simulation examines how organizing their work affects performance. The findings raise familiar questions about coordination, handoffs, and how businesses estimate the savings from agents.
Across five experiments using obscure movie questions, access to an often-wrong AI assistant made participants far less willing to say they didn’t know. They answered more, became more confident, and got more answers wrong.
Computer-use agents may make old enterprise systems easier to automate. A recent study shows why completion rates need to account for what those agents leave behind.