Lack of Trustworthy Stop Criteria When Delegating Tasks to AI Agents
When delegating work to an autonomous AI agent, users struggle to define what evidence would let them confidently trust that the agent has reached a correct stopping point. This is a systemic gap in how agent output is verified before a human accepts it, rather than a flaw in any single tool.
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