Fast AI agents read states correctly yet still choose wrong actions

Most decision errors in System One models occur when all probed facts about the agent's state are answered correctly, and these errors cluster on the same states across systems.

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Yubo Li · Ramayya Krishnan · Rema Padman

Carnegie Mellon University

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors built a frozen benchmark of 65,228 agent decision states and paired each next-action question with independent factual probes about the same state.

The authors collected agent decision states from simulators with exact ground truth (ALFWorld, BabyAI-Text, TextWorld), customer-service policies (tau^2-bench), tool use, web navigation and coding traces.

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first published 19 Oct, 7:50 am
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