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Under Pressure, Agents Asked People for More Help

Across 120 simulated healthcare trajectories, heavier disruption shifted models from self-directed recovery toward human dependence.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-13-015
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Summary

Across 120 simulated healthcare trajectories, heavier disruption shifted models from self-directed recovery toward human dependence.

The study evaluates operational resilience and considerate participation across 120 simulated healthcare trajectories, twelve stakeholder-derived tasks and two generative models. As technical, human and operational challenges accumulated, agents relied more on people, reported higher workload and more negative affect in structured measures, yet seldom expressed strain in their prose. Their adaptations also broadened from task completion to role boundaries and coordination. The authors derive five deployment dilemmas rather than claiming a production-readiness score.

Why it matters

Across 120 simulated healthcare trajectories, heavier disruption shifted models from self-directed recovery toward human dependence.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Across 120 simulated healthcare trajectories, heavier disruption shifted models from self-directed recovery toward human dependence.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-13-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.10724arXiv · primary research

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