Author Says Agent Human Approval Is Often Theater
An author argues that “human approval” in many agent systems often functions as theater rather than real control. Using a multi-tenant MCP server with write access and real money-related operations, they show approval layers like human approval or draft-then-commit can fail when the approval step is outside the true execution path or when people approve a model-written description instead of the exact action.
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