Melanie Mitchell Warns of Approval Fatigue in AI Agent Oversight
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-02
Melanie Mitchell commented on AI agent oversight solutions from Hugging Face and Data Society. She identified the core problem as the "loop": agents touch surfaces too quickly, requiring approvals beyond human processing capacity, which causes overseers to drift into approval fatigue and acquiescence.
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