AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

arXiv:2608.23642 · cs.AI, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-09-06

Terminology

• AI Agents — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Affordance — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accountability — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic System — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Scaffolding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Coding — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic AI systems — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Metacognition — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sycophancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Evaluation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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