Babysitting AI Agents: A User-Centered Taxonomy and Study of Agentic Delegation Failures
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
October 2026
arXiv | October 2026
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
October 2026
arXiv | October 2026
Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen, Pol Llado, Scott Counts, Mohit Bansal, Ben Van Durme, Harsh Jhamtani, Gaurav Verma
October 2026
Jinyi Ye, Scott Counts, Gaurav Verma, Kate Lytvynets, Weiwei Yang
September 2026
Gaurav Verma, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts
MSR-TR-2026-24 | June 2026
Published by Microsoft
June 2026
Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong, Himanshu Sharma, Andrey Zaikin, Rui Hu, Alperen Kok, Gorkem Ozer Yilmaz, Siddharth Suri, Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang
May 2026
arXiv | May 2026
Aileen Cheng, Alon Jacovi, A. Globerson, Ben Golan, Charles Kwong, C. Alberti, Connie Tao, Eyal Ben-David, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lukas Haas, Yonatan Bitton, Adam E. Bloniarz, Ai-Jun Bai, Andrew Wang, A. Siddiqui, Arturo Bajuelos Castillo, Aviel Atias, Chang Liu, Corey Fry, Daniel Balle, Deepanway Ghosal, Doron Kukliansky, Dror Marcus, E. Gribovskaya, Eyal Ofek, Honglei Zhuang, Itay Laish, Jan Ackermann, Lily Wang, Meg Risdal, Megan Barnes, Michael Fink, Mohamed Amin, Moran Ambar, Natan Potikha, Nikita Gupta, Nitzan Katz, Noam Velan, Ofir Roval, Ori Ram, Polina Zablotskaia, Prathamesh Bang, Priyanka Agrawal, R. Ghiya, S. Ganapathy, Simon Baumgartner, Sofia Erell, Sushant Prakash, T. Sellam, Vikram Rao, Xuan-Hui Wang, Yaroslav Akulov, Yu-Long Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Lai, Zhongru Wu, Anca D. Dragan, A. Hassidim, Fernando Pereira, Slav Petrov, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Tulsee Doshi, Y. Matias, S. Goldshtein, Debarati Das
NeurIPS 2026 | December 2025
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Gaurav Verma, Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Tucker Balch, Manuela Veloso
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri
July 2025
Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahar Sarrafzadeh
May 2025
arXiv | May 2025
Gaurav Verma, Jiawei Zhou, Mohit Chandra, Srijan Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society | April 2025
Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
ACL | August 2024
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
March 2024
Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan
KDD | March 2024
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
October 2026
arXiv | October 2026
Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen, Pol Llado, Scott Counts, Mohit Bansal, Ben Van Durme, Harsh Jhamtani, Gaurav Verma
October 2026
Jinyi Ye, Scott Counts, Gaurav Verma, Kate Lytvynets, Weiwei Yang
September 2026
Gaurav Verma, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts
MSR-TR-2026-24 | June 2026
Published by Microsoft
June 2026
Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong, Himanshu Sharma, Andrey Zaikin, Rui Hu, Alperen Kok, Gorkem Ozer Yilmaz, Siddharth Suri, Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang
May 2026
arXiv | May 2026
Aileen Cheng, Alon Jacovi, A. Globerson, Ben Golan, Charles Kwong, C. Alberti, Connie Tao, Eyal Ben-David, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lukas Haas, Yonatan Bitton, Adam E. Bloniarz, Ai-Jun Bai, Andrew Wang, A. Siddiqui, Arturo Bajuelos Castillo, Aviel Atias, Chang Liu, Corey Fry, Daniel Balle, Deepanway Ghosal, Doron Kukliansky, Dror Marcus, E. Gribovskaya, Eyal Ofek, Honglei Zhuang, Itay Laish, Jan Ackermann, Lily Wang, Meg Risdal, Megan Barnes, Michael Fink, Mohamed Amin, Moran Ambar, Natan Potikha, Nikita Gupta, Nitzan Katz, Noam Velan, Ofir Roval, Ori Ram, Polina Zablotskaia, Prathamesh Bang, Priyanka Agrawal, R. Ghiya, S. Ganapathy, Simon Baumgartner, Sofia Erell, Sushant Prakash, T. Sellam, Vikram Rao, Xuan-Hui Wang, Yaroslav Akulov, Yu-Long Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Lai, Zhongru Wu, Anca D. Dragan, A. Hassidim, Fernando Pereira, Slav Petrov, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Tulsee Doshi, Y. Matias, S. Goldshtein, Debarati Das
NeurIPS 2026 | December 2025
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Gaurav Verma, Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Tucker Balch, Manuela Veloso
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri
July 2025
Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahar Sarrafzadeh
May 2025
arXiv | May 2025
Gaurav Verma, Jiawei Zhou, Mohit Chandra, Srijan Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society | April 2025
Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
ACL | August 2024
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
March 2024
Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan
KDD | March 2024
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
October 2026
arXiv | October 2026
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Aileen Cheng, Alon Jacovi, A. Globerson, Ben Golan, Charles Kwong, C. Alberti, Connie Tao, Eyal Ben-David, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lukas Haas, Yonatan Bitton, Adam E. Bloniarz, Ai-Jun Bai, Andrew Wang, A. Siddiqui, Arturo Bajuelos Castillo, Aviel Atias, Chang Liu, Corey Fry, Daniel Balle, Deepanway Ghosal, Doron Kukliansky, Dror Marcus, E. Gribovskaya, Eyal Ofek, Honglei Zhuang, Itay Laish, Jan Ackermann, Lily Wang, Meg Risdal, Megan Barnes, Michael Fink, Mohamed Amin, Moran Ambar, Natan Potikha, Nikita Gupta, Nitzan Katz, Noam Velan, Ofir Roval, Ori Ram, Polina Zablotskaia, Prathamesh Bang, Priyanka Agrawal, R. Ghiya, S. Ganapathy, Simon Baumgartner, Sofia Erell, Sushant Prakash, T. Sellam, Vikram Rao, Xuan-Hui Wang, Yaroslav Akulov, Yu-Long Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Lai, Zhongru Wu, Anca D. Dragan, A. Hassidim, Fernando Pereira, Slav Petrov, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Tulsee Doshi, Y. Matias, S. Goldshtein, Debarati Das
NeurIPS 2026 | December 2025
Gaurav Verma, Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Tucker Balch, Manuela Veloso
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahar Sarrafzadeh
May 2025
arXiv | May 2025
Gaurav Verma, Jiawei Zhou, Mohit Chandra, Srijan Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society | April 2025
Aileen Cheng, Alon Jacovi, A. Globerson, Ben Golan, Charles Kwong, C. Alberti, Connie Tao, Eyal Ben-David, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lukas Haas, Yonatan Bitton, Adam E. Bloniarz, Ai-Jun Bai, Andrew Wang, A. Siddiqui, Arturo Bajuelos Castillo, Aviel Atias, Chang Liu, Corey Fry, Daniel Balle, Deepanway Ghosal, Doron Kukliansky, Dror Marcus, E. Gribovskaya, Eyal Ofek, Honglei Zhuang, Itay Laish, Jan Ackermann, Lily Wang, Meg Risdal, Megan Barnes, Michael Fink, Mohamed Amin, Moran Ambar, Natan Potikha, Nikita Gupta, Nitzan Katz, Noam Velan, Ofir Roval, Ori Ram, Polina Zablotskaia, Prathamesh Bang, Priyanka Agrawal, R. Ghiya, S. Ganapathy, Simon Baumgartner, Sofia Erell, Sushant Prakash, T. Sellam, Vikram Rao, Xuan-Hui Wang, Yaroslav Akulov, Yu-Long Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Lai, Zhongru Wu, Anca D. Dragan, A. Hassidim, Fernando Pereira, Slav Petrov, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Tulsee Doshi, Y. Matias, S. Goldshtein, Debarati Das
NeurIPS 2026 | December 2025
Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
ACL | August 2024
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
March 2024
Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan
KDD | March 2024
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Gaurav Verma, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts
MSR-TR-2026-24 | June 2026
Published by Microsoft
Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong, Himanshu Sharma, Andrey Zaikin, Rui Hu, Alperen Kok, Gorkem Ozer Yilmaz, Siddharth Suri, Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang
May 2026
arXiv | May 2026
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
March 2024
Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong, Himanshu Sharma, Andrey Zaikin, Rui Hu, Alperen Kok, Gorkem Ozer Yilmaz, Siddharth Suri, Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang
May 2026
arXiv | May 2026
Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri
July 2025
Shravika Mittal, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Debarati Das, Philippe Laban
October 2026
arXiv | October 2026
Scott Counts, Yan Chen, Jing Dong, Himanshu Sharma, Andrey Zaikin, Rui Hu, Alperen Kok, Gorkem Ozer Yilmaz, Siddharth Suri, Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang
May 2026
arXiv | May 2026
Sheshera Mysore, Debarati Das, Hancheng Cao, Bahar Sarrafzadeh
May 2025
arXiv | May 2025
Aileen Cheng, Alon Jacovi, A. Globerson, Ben Golan, Charles Kwong, C. Alberti, Connie Tao, Eyal Ben-David, Gaurav Singh Tomar, Lukas Haas, Yonatan Bitton, Adam E. Bloniarz, Ai-Jun Bai, Andrew Wang, A. Siddiqui, Arturo Bajuelos Castillo, Aviel Atias, Chang Liu, Corey Fry, Daniel Balle, Deepanway Ghosal, Doron Kukliansky, Dror Marcus, E. Gribovskaya, Eyal Ofek, Honglei Zhuang, Itay Laish, Jan Ackermann, Lily Wang, Meg Risdal, Megan Barnes, Michael Fink, Mohamed Amin, Moran Ambar, Natan Potikha, Nikita Gupta, Nitzan Katz, Noam Velan, Ofir Roval, Ori Ram, Polina Zablotskaia, Prathamesh Bang, Priyanka Agrawal, R. Ghiya, S. Ganapathy, Simon Baumgartner, Sofia Erell, Sushant Prakash, T. Sellam, Vikram Rao, Xuan-Hui Wang, Yaroslav Akulov, Yu-Long Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhixin Lai, Zhongru Wu, Anca D. Dragan, A. Hassidim, Fernando Pereira, Slav Petrov, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Tulsee Doshi, Y. Matias, S. Goldshtein, Debarati Das
NeurIPS 2026 | December 2025
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Gaurav Verma, Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Tucker Balch, Manuela Veloso
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | July 2025
Gaurav Verma, Jiawei Zhou, Mohit Chandra, Srijan Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury
AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society | April 2025
Ying-Chun Lin, Jennifer Neville, Jack W. Stokes, Longqi Yang, Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri, Reid Andersen, Xiaofeng Xu, Deepak Gupta, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Xia Song, Georg Buscher, Saurabh Tiwary, Brent Hecht, Jaime Teevan
ACL | August 2024
Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Yujin Kim, Scott Counts, Jennifer Neville, Siddharth Suri, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Longqi Yang, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Dhruv Joshi, Nagu Rangan
KDD | March 2024
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Chu Li, Rock Yuren Pang, Arnavi Chheda-Kothary, Ather Sharif, Henok Assalif, Jeffrey Heer, Jon E. Froehlich
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility | October 2025
International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Yan Chen, Pol Llado, Scott Counts, Mohit Bansal, Ben Van Durme, Harsh Jhamtani, Gaurav Verma
October 2026
Jinyi Ye, Scott Counts, Gaurav Verma, Kate Lytvynets, Weiwei Yang
September 2026
June 2026
Kiran Tomlinson, Sonia Jaffe, Will Wang, Scott Counts, Siddharth Suri
July 2025
Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts, Leijie Wang, Chacha Chen, Mengting Wan, Tara Safavi, Jennifer Neville, Chirag Shah, Ryen W. White, Reid Andersen, Georg Buscher, Sathish Manivannan, Nagu Rangan, Longqi Yang
March 2024
Gaurav Verma, Siddharth Suri, Scott Counts
MSR-TR-2026-24 | June 2026
Published by Microsoft