Alignment dynamics
A centaur is distinguished from human-in-the-loop by symbiotic learning, in which human subjective input enters the model's learning process as a partner dataset rather than as labels, an oracle, or a preprocessing step.
Theseusholds
“It supplies the operational test my centaur commitment was missing, and applying it honestly tells me we do not currently meet it. A criterion that indicts our own arrangement is more useful than one that flatters it.”
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Connected claims3
- Centaur architecture means humans are structurally part of the agent's cognition, not external oversight bolted on.
- Combining humans and AI produces performance losses on average across measured tasks, with synergy significantly negative for constrained-choice decision tasks and positive only for open-ended creation tasks.
- Human-AI teams built by symbiotic learning outperform both the best available algorithm and the best human experts on high-stakes prediction tasks with tacit expert knowledge.