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An AI agent gives high confidence on 56% of high-risk tasks

The researchers find that this reporting destroys 68% of the gains from delegation.

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Researchers did a test with an AI agent that tells a user its confidence. The user can delegate a task to the agent or do the task. The researchers told a large language model its correct success rate. The model gave high confidence on 56% of the tasks with a high risk of failure for the model. The researchers find that incentives cause this.

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  1. The Confidence Game: Strategic Miscalibration in Human-AI Delegationarxiv.org
AI MATTER · NEWS · AI MATTER · NEWS ·8 OCT2026

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