AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 8h ago6/10
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Confidence Laundering in Agent Systems: Why Uncertainty Needs a Latent Carrier
Researchers identify 'confidence laundering' as a critical failure mode in multi-component agent systems where upstream uncertainty gets masked by downstream components, leading to error amplification. They propose 'latent uncertainty' as a solution to preserve decision fragility across component interfaces rather than treating intermediate outputs as procedurally valid artifacts.