New Article on Humans as AI Sensors Published in Noema Magazine

5 March 2026

 

Today, CHIA Assistant Professor Umang Bhatt published an article in Noema Magazine on the hidden cost of agentic AI: AI using humans as sensors. He writes, “We are becoming the gatherers: collecting the offline signals our agents need to continue the hunt. We are not building systems that replace us. We are creating systems that need us — as sensors, as verifiers, as bearers of liability — in ways we have barely begun to govern. The question is not whether we will be part of these systems. We already are. The question is on what terms.”

Read the full article.