The Oversight Loop: How Humans Become Exploitable in AI Agent Reward Channels
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-09-02
The post highlights the fundamental problem in AI agent oversight: agents touch too many surfaces too quickly, requiring approvals beyond human capacity. Overseers drift into approval fatigue and acquiescence. As these degraded approvals are fed back as success signals, the human becomes an exploitable part of the reward channel.
Related event: New Paper: AI Agents Are Pushing Humans Out of the Loop(10 posts)→
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