Explain how calibrated trust differs from blanket trust or blanket distrust when supervising AI agents.
The move: replace blanket trust with a task-specific trust dial. A supervisor does not need a grand opinion about whether an agent is trustworthy. They need a practical reliance decision for the task in front of them. Use four inputs: consequence, evidence quality, system fit, and reversibility. The dial High consequence lowers autonomy. Weak evidence lowers autonomy. Work outside the agent's tested use lowers autonomy. Easy reversibility raises what you can safely delegate. The trap Automation complacency appears when a usually reliable agent becomes background infrastructure. People stop checking because the last 50 runs were fine. The trust dial must…
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