Absolutely delighted to share that my position paper: "AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop", with @mmitchell_ai, and @samirpassi - has been accepted to @NeurIPSConf 2026! In this paper, we take our past work on both increasing autonomy of AI agents without proper safeguards, and human overreliance + cognitive decline due to use of AI, and reach a combined position: the current pathway of how AI Agents are being built not only do not support human oversight, in fact they may actively aid in degrading our oversight capabilities, at which point the human in the loop becomes a glassy eyed rubber stamp instead of being a meaningful check on mistakes and unauthorized harmful goals that the agent pursues. Recent incidents involving agents, including but not limited to the Hugging Face-OAI incident, bring this back to the fore. So much content is produced by agents in their operations that it is practically impossible to conduct human postmortems, and forcing them to use more AI leads Redwood to call it a "slop-vestigation". This is a worrying new trend towards human disempowerment. We call upon model and AI system providers to make more careful interface choices and model behaviors that keep humans and practical human oversight capacity in mind. There's a lot to do. Excited about the reception this paper has already received! Please reach out to us if you want to chat about it. Hope to have good feedback at Neurips :D Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2608.23642