Who Takes the Lead? Model Ability and Task-Conditioned Collaboration with Humans
3.60T1 sourcearXiv cs.HC
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Published by arXiv cs.HC (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27148.
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SummaryA controlled study of how language-model agents allocate turns between acting autonomously and deferring to a human partner in a shared maze task, with three advantage conditions. Stronger solo-performing models showed selective human involvement (roughly 80% when the human held the shorter route), while the weakest model showed no such selectivity.
Why it mattersSeparates a correct division of labor from a collaboration failure in human-AI teams — a useful framing for designing agent workflows that hand off to people.
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