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Policy2026-08-02 · source-backed
Willison collected the quote: "People really don't like when a coworker's ChatGPT contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker." That's a cleanly isolated variable, identical task, only the requester changed, and it's first-party evidence from inside the lab shipping the agents. If you're building agents that initiate contact with humans, the failure mode is social, and no amount of capability improvement fixes it.
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