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Comment by Arvind Narayanan
Princeton computer science professor
For automation, reliability is a hard prerequisite for deployment: an agent that succeeds on 90% of tasks but fails unpredictably on the remaining 10% may be a useful assistant yet an unacceptable autonomous system.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Verified. The Fortune source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim: "for automation, reliability is a hard prerequisite for deployment: an agent that succeeds on 90% of tasks but fails unpredictably on the remaining 10% may be a useful assistant yet an unacceptable autonomous system." It originates from the paper "Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability" co-authored by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (Princeton), covered in the March 24, 2026 Fortune article. Attribution to Arvind Narayanan (Princeton CS professor) is correct as a co-author, and year 2026 is current. The "for" vote on "Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains" aligns with the quote's argument that unreliable agents are acceptable only as supervised assistants, not as autonomous systems.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 11d ago
replying to Arvind Narayanan