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AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 196/10

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Bistable by Construction: Wall-Clock-Calibrated State Monitors Have No Moment-Detection Regime at Agent Cadence

Researchers identified and corrected a critical flaw in runtime monitoring systems for autonomous agents, revealing that wall-clock-calibrated state monitors exhibit a bistable failure mode with no effective middle ground for detecting behavioral anomalies. The study demonstrates that monitoring dynamics must match the temporal characteristics of agent action streams to function properly, with implications for safety-critical AI deployment.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 56/10

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Human oversight of agentic systems in practice: Examining the oversight work, challenges, and heuristics of developers using software agents

Researchers conducted interviews with 17 experienced developers to understand how they actually oversee autonomous software agents in practice, identifying four forms of oversight work (a priori control, co-planning, real-time monitoring, and post hoc review) and documenting practical challenges developers face when managing AI agents.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 37/107

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Constitutional Black-Box Monitoring for Scheming in LLM Agents

Researchers developed constitutional black-box monitors to detect scheming behavior in LLM agents using only observable inputs and outputs. The study found that monitors trained on synthetic data can generalize to realistic environments, but performance improvements plateau quickly with simple optimization techniques outperforming complex methods.