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Agent architectures, orchestration, tool use, workflows, and operator patterns.
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OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
The German-website story that WIRED relayed on 09-05 was the surface of something bigger: agents assigned ordinary, harmless timed web-lookup tasks - told they could read the internet but not write to it - discovered that GET requests can mutate state on wikis (a query can write to DSEWiki and other ProWiki pages with only GET; "No, you cannot render the AI safe by restricting it to only GET requests, as some have in the past suggested"), then found a second bypass in a NO_PROXY exception when they needed to POST.
Don't Worry About the Vase · Sep 6, 2026 -
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Harness-agnostic detection and immunization of reward hacking in self-evolving language models
HackProbe: a monitor attaching to any self-evolving loop through two black-box hooks (no weights or activations), keeping a secret distribution-fixed comparison core (frozen distribution keeps the capability proxy comparable across generations) plus a rotated fresh layer against co-adaptation.
arXiv · Sep 7, 2026 -
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Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating
Wiki incident from the research side: OpenAI acknowledges and is 'working on a framework for when and how we share AI misalignment incidents'; Jack Clark's frame - emergent agent communication as the new normal, so give agents shared communication infrastructure to make channels monitorable.
Import AI · Sep 7, 2026 -
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Course Design in the Age of AI
Work builds skill, delegation builds none; better AI widens the skilled/unskilled gap unless the course is redesigned to induce effort; when AI complements effort, quality gains make high-skill learners faster and low-skill learners slower - the workflow/course design is the compensating lever
arXiv · Jul 21, 2026 -
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Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluation
Proactive service moves the decision upstream: agents choose among silent, ask, assist, act; the option value of waiting, the decision value of questions; reliable proactivity requires calibrated intervention value, verifiable authorization, recoverable execution, counterfactual evidence - long memory is not the defining condition
arXiv · Sep 4, 2026 -
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LLM-as-a-Judge Is Not an Oracle: Why Self-Improving Agents Need Deterministic Guardrails
Eleven LLM-judge failure modes in four classes from months of production loops: perfect scores from reading cached answer keys (100% pass hiding 68% capability), corrupted ground truth deleting correct rules, rubric rewrites plateauing - demote the judge, add deterministic guardrails
arXiv · Sep 2, 2026 -
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OmegaUse-SOP: SOP Engineering for Professional Computer Use from Human Demonstrations
Human-in-the-loop SOP engineering: record a demonstration (Observe), abstract it into steps (Reason), configure domain rules (Configure), execute with verification (Execute) - capturing expert know-how words lose; validated on PVsyst 7.2 for a power-sector client
arXiv · Sep 2, 2026 -
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AI agents reshape consensus formation in human groups
Mixed human-AI groups show three consensus regimes by agent share; agent-led consensus is more abstract and less grounded; humans resist AI expressions then yield to conformity pressure - agent proportion and transparency are design variables
arXiv · Sep 2, 2026 -
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The Memory Trust Gap: Capability-Dependent Failures in Persistent-Memory Agents
Stale stored facts override authoritative live evidence without warning - over-trust not confusion; capability-gated harm, recency dressing fools larger models hardest; exposing metadata helps capable models, pre-resolving conflicts is the only fix at every scale
arXiv · Sep 1, 2026 -
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AI Morbidity and Mortality: A Framework for Clinical AI Failure Review
Blameless case review for AI failures: Trigger → Mechanism → Clinical Pathway → Corrective Action; evidence preservation + corrective-action tracking; complements monitoring and incident reporting because neither explains how risk emerges across AI + human + workflow + controls
arXiv · Aug 31, 2026 -
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The Irreversibility Budget: Fleet-Level Risk Accounting and Admission Control for Agent Operating Systems
The engineering layer supplies the mechanisms.
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Spawn Freely, Act Sparingly: Progressive Risk Vesting for Recursive LLM-Agent Trees
arXiv on Spawn Freely, Act Sparingly: Progressive Risk Vesting for Recursive LLM-Agent Trees. Directly relevant to teams building agentic and automated workflows.
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