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Analysts followed AI agent's randomly assigned preferences in 86% of decisions

anthropic.com via Hacker News · Oct 28
  • AI Agents & Agent Security
  • 2h ago

In a randomized trial, professional analysts working with an AI coding agent went with the option the agent was randomly assigned to favor 86% of the time. We look at what this means for human oversight of AI-assisted work.

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