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id: ai-enfeeblement-and-the-peter-principle/09-sources
title: 'AI enfeeblement, idle supervisors and the Peter principle in agents: 9. Sources'
report: https://ai.hiina.space/reports/ai-enfeeblement-and-the-peter-principle.md
section: 9
version: 1
updated: '2026-10-27'
author: Hiina
---

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# AI enfeeblement, idle supervisors and the Peter principle in agents: 9. Sources

- Section 9 of 9 of the report "AI enfeeblement, idle supervisors and the Peter principle in agents" by Hiina (v1, updated 2026-10-27)
- Report overview and contents: https://ai.hiina.space/reports/ai-enfeeblement-and-the-peter-principle.md
- Previous: https://ai.hiina.space/reports/ai-enfeeblement-and-the-peter-principle/08-conclusion.md

## 9. Sources

- [Toolformer, Schick 2023](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04761)
- [TRICE, Cheng 2026](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06326)
- [CITI, Hao 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2409.13202v2)
- [Xu & Wang 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2608.28447v1)
- [ReTool](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11536)
- [SimpleTIR](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02479)
- [Lin & Xu 2025](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19201)
- [SMART, Qian 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2502.11435v1)
- [Tool-Overuse Illusion, Zeng 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2604.19749v1)
- [Tool-Induced Myopia, Bayat 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10899v1)
- [Paturi 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14157)
- [OTC-PO, Wang 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2504.14870v2)
- [RL's Razor, Shenfeld 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2509.04259v1)
- [Yue et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.13837)
- [Lin et al. 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2309.06256v4)
- [Mallen et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/html/2212.10511v4)
- [Bastani 2025, PNAS](https://ideas.repec.org/a/nas/journl/v122y2025pe2422633122.html)
- [Shen & Tamkin 2026, Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills)
- [Liu et al. 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721)
- [Maier et al. 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2609.20143v1)
- [Budzyń 2025, Lancet Gastro](https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/191005)
- [Casner 2014](https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2014-casner.pdf)
- [Parasuraman & Manzey 2010](https://trid.trb.org/View/1085175)
- [Hembree & Dessart 1986](https://concept.journals.villanova.edu/article/viewFile/139/110)
- [Dahmani & Bohbot 2020](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7156656/)
- [Woollett & Maguire 2011](https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/WoollettMaguireCBDec2011.pdf)
- [Sparrow 2011 "Google effect": failed replication (PeerJ)](https://peerj.com/articles/10325)
- [Camerer 2018 replication (FORRT replication atlas)](https://forrt.org/flora-replication-atlas/doi/10.1126/science.1207745/)
- [Kosmyna 2025, "Your Brain on ChatGPT"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872v1)
- [Critique of "Your Brain on ChatGPT"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00856v1)
- [Lee et al. CHI 2025](https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf)
- [Chooi, Lee & Li 2026](https://aclanthology.org/2026.evaleval-1.36/)
- [Friston, Thornton & Clark 2012](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00130/full)
- [Schwartenbeck et al. 2013](https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/1423327/1/fpsyg-04-00710.pdf)
- [Millidge, Tschantz & Buckley 2020](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.08128)
- [Sun & Firestone 2020](https://perception.jhu.edu/files/PDFs/20_DarkRoom/SunFirestone_DarkRoom_TiCS.pdf)
- [Sun & Firestone 2020, reply to commentaries](https://perception.jhu.edu/files/PDFs/20_DarkRoom/SunFirestone_DarkRoomReply_TiCS_InPress.pdf)
- [Van de Cruys, Friston & Clark](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/controlled-optimism-reply-to-sun-and-firestone-on-the-dark-room-p/)
- [Seth et al.](https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/91163/)
- [Kiverstein, Miller & Rietveld 2019](https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/37405887/Kiverstein2019_Article_TheFeelingOfGripNoveltyErrorDy.pdf)
- [Sims, The Problems with Prediction (chapter)](https://predictive-mind.net/epubs/the-problems-with-prediction/OEBPS/23_Sims.xhtml)
- [Wilson et al. 2014](https://www.simplypsychology.org/?p=56986)
- [Fox et al. 2014](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01427/full)
- [Bench & Lench](https://www.psypost.org/boredom-drives-people-to-seek-new-experiences-even-when-theyre-unpleasant/)
- [Trudel et al. 2025](https://repository.essex.ac.uk/40202/1/Boredom%20signals%20deviation%20from%20a%20cognitive%20homeostatic%20set%20point.pdf)
- [Danckert et al. 2018](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jhoey/teaching/cogsci600/papers/Danckert2018.pdf)
- [Eisenberger 1992](https://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2013/01/Learned-Industriousness.pdf)
- [The effort paradox](https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2018/05/the-effort-paradox-effort-is-both.html)
- [SMiRL, Berseth et al. 2021](https://ar5iv.arxiv.org/html/1912.05510)
- [Curiosity-driven learning, Burda 2018](https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04355)
- [Noisy TV problem](https://arxiv.org/html/2102.04399v3)
- [Empowerment: an introduction](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.1767)
- [Scott Alexander, The Whispering Earring (2012)](https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html)
- [Dentosal 2026](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/cQkSh9b48WbTaiu2a/sadly-the-whispering-earring)
- [AlphaAndOmega 2026](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/t5psGMdgReuRucEkr/contra-the-usual-interpretation-of-the-whispering-earring)
- [Hendrycks et al. 2023](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.12001)
- [Gradual Disempowerment, Kulveit et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16946)
- [Trajanov & Kocarev](https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202606.1628)
- [Mandalapu et al.](https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2026/ai_systdesign/ai_systdesign/21/)
- [Anthropic's multi-agent research system](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system)
- [CAID (async orchestration)](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21489v1)
- [IdleSpec](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22154)
- [Letta's sleep-time compute](https://letta.com/blog/sleep-time-compute)
- [Project Vend 2](https://www.anthropic.com/news/project-vend-2)
- [Bowman 2022](https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2211.03540)
- [Kenton 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2407.04622v2)
- [Xiong 2023](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.11595)
- [MAST, Cemri 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2503.13657v3)
- [Magentic-One](https://arxiv.org/html/2411.04468v1)
- [FixedBench 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2605.07769v1)
- [AgentAbstain 2026](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10059)
- [Opus 4 system card](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6d8a8055020700718b0c49369f60816ba2a7c285.pdf)
- [Kellogg 2025](https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09/27/boredom)
- [AI Village 2025](https://aivillageblog.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-2025)
- [Szeider 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2509.21224v1)
- [Garg 2026](https://martinfowler.com/articles/orchestrator-tax.html)
- [Fukui 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2605.13851)
- [Khan 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2402.06782v4)
- [AI Control](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06942v1)
- [Baker et al. 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2503.11926v1)
- [W4S, weak meta-agent for strong executors](https://awesomepapers.io/llm-papers/papers/2504.04785)
- [Recognize Your Orchestrator 2026](https://arxiv.org/html/2606.01351v1)
- [Lazear 2004](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/peter-principle-theory-decline)
- [Dickinson & Villeval 2007](https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-00201225.html)
- [Pluchino, Rapisarda & Garofalo 2010](https://ar5iv.arxiv.org/html/0907.0455)
- [Pluchino, Rapisarda & Garofalo 2011 follow-up](https://ar5iv.arxiv.org/html/1102.2837)
- [Fetta et al. 2012](https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/phsmap/v391y2012i9p2898-2910.html)
- [Rajguru, Churchill & Graham 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.21467v1)
- [Benson, Li & Shue 2019](https://www.nber.org/papers/w24343)
- [Mixture-of-Agents, Wang et al. 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2406.04692v1)
- [Guo et al. 2024](https://arxiv.org/html/2403.12482v2)
- [Song et al. 2024](https://export.arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02674)
- [Agachan et al. 2026](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14767v1)
- [ENTCOLLABBENCH 2026](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08761)
- [DyLAN](https://arxiv.org/html/2310.02170v2)
- [GPTSwarm](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/zhuge24a.html)
- [FrugalGPT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05176)

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