Automation bias is the tendency to over-trust an automated system: to accept its suggestions without enough scrutiny (errors of commission) and to stop monitoring it altogether (errors of omission). It explains why a human placed in front of an AI agent's output will so often approve it without really checking. For anyone building agents, automation bias is the single biggest threat to the idea of "human in the loop," because it quietly turns oversight into a rubber stamp. The person clicks appr...