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Survey of 289 U.S. adults maps when people want AI agents to act for them

A scenario-based survey of 289 U.S. adults with prior AI experience examined how people feel about AI agents carrying out multi-step tasks on their behalf. The study covered 45 use cases across nine life domains, with each respondent evaluating one scenario per domain. Researchers measured automation preference, trust, collaboration, AI leadership, privacy concern, and willingness to delegate.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-11-06T17:06:41+00:00 Detected 2026-11-10T06:17:16+00:00
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A scenario-based survey of 289 U.S. adults with prior AI experience examined how people feel about AI agents carrying out multi-step tasks on their behalf. The study covered 45 use cases across nine life domains, with each respondent evaluating one scenario per domain. Researchers measured automation preference, trust, collaboration, AI leadership, privacy concern, and willingness to delegate.

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AI agents can execute multi-step tasks on users' behalf, yet the boundaries of acceptable delegation remain unclear. We report a scenario-based survey of 289 U.S. adults with prior AI experience covering 45 use cases across nine life domains. Each respondent evaluated one scenario per domain, producing repeated...

Builders of agentic products need to know which tasks users are willing to hand over and which they want to keep, since that shapes design and consent flows. Businesses and users face the same question about where automation should stop. The snippet gives no findings on the actual preferences, so the next useful step is the full paper's results.

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