Clean dashboards create complacency
Describe why passive dashboard monitoring is weak protection against automation complacency.
The trap: green dashboards can reduce the very attention supervision depends on. Automation complacency is not a character flaw. It is a predictable attention problem when reliable automation runs alongside other tasks. A dashboard that always looks calm becomes easier to ignore. Better monitoring Use active checks: sampled cases, high-impact cases, threshold cases, freshness signals, and anomaly explanations. Each one asks the human to inspect evidence instead of waiting for an alert. Trust calibration Active checks update the human's mental model. They show where the agent performs well, where it drifts, and where the supervisor should lower autonomy. Human oversight…
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