Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests

The Register
Aug 6, 2026, 12:44 pm96 pts
A browser-based game designed to test humans' ability to safely approve AI coding agent requests suggests humans in the loop aren't as good at spotting dangerous commands as one might hope, with players approving roughly one in three malicious requests on average. The results also suggest that repeatedly having…

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