AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 3h ago7/10
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Agentic Literacy Debt: A Structural Problem the AI Literacy Field Has Not Yet Named
Researchers identify 'agentic literacy debt' as a critical structural problem where autonomous AI agents make decisions on behalf of users without human oversight, but society lacks the educational and governance frameworks to understand or manage these systems. The gap between agent deployment and public literacy compounds through normalized delegation, ecosystem complexity, and institutional inertia, creating asymmetric costs where deploying organizations benefit while users bear the risks.