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This article examines the friction that arises when users shift from exploratory conversation with AI tools to precise task delegation. Through direct observation of seven people working with AI, the author identifies three interaction styles (collaborative, commanding, over-explainers) and reveals how conversational fluency in AI interfaces creates false expectations of shared understanding, leading users to accept suggestions that drift from their original intent.

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  • human-agency relocated-from interface-affordances
  • human-agency relocated-to communicative-interaction
  • process-control contrasted-with outcome-control
  • agentic-ai requires outcome-control
  • conversational-interface enables goal-articulation
  • traditional-hci-metrics fails-to-capture relocated-agency

What this post argues beta

  • The anxiety about losing human agency in AI systems reflects a framing problem rather than empirical reality
  • Agency has migrated from interface affordances to communicative interaction as AI systems become more conversational and autonomous
  • Traditional HCI metrics that equate agency with visible interface controls fail to capture how users actually exercise agency in contemporary AI interaction
  • The distinction between process control and outcome control reveals that agency redistribution demands new approaches to measurement, design, and responsibility

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