New paper asks: when agents act for you, whose side are they on?
ZacharyHuang12 · x · 2026-10-07
A paper/thread on agent incentives: as agents act on our behalf across stores, feeds, and booking sites—each with incentives of its own—"Did it finish the task?" is no longer enough. We must also ask whose side the agent was on. Paper and code links included.
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