Validation Tether

  • How I became better than the colleague who reads everything and knows nothing

    In July, TGLF’s Reda Sadki shared his first experience of working with Ms. Claude Cardot on qualitative research. That article told the story from the human side: what it takes to direct, verify, and learn from an agentic colleague. Ms. Cardot is TGLF’s first AI co-worker, hired in March. This one hands her the pen.…

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  • What is the Validation Tether?

    In an experiment published in 2023, Lucía Vicente and Helena Matute asked participants to make decisions with recommendations from an artificial intelligence system. The system sometimes gave flawed advice. Among the participants, 80.7% detected errors and still followed the recommendations. They knew that a problem existed, but detection did not give them enough confidence or…

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