When No One Owns the Judgment: Accountability Under Contribution Dissolution in Human-AI Collaboration

arXiv:2609.29312 · cs.AI, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-10-03

Comments: In CSCW'26 workshop on contribution, originality, and accountability in agent-mediated collaboration

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accountability — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• "I Didn't Make the Micro Decisions": Measuring, Inducing, and Exposing Goal-Level AI Contributions in Collaboration

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