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Figure 24.1: The target of trust calibration

The target of trust calibration.
Figure 24.1 The target of trust calibration. Reliance should track the agent's actual reliability—the diagonal, in accent. Above it lies over-trust, where reliance outruns reliability and mistakes ship; below it, under-trust, where good work is redone by hand until someone switches the agent off. The goal is to match trust to reliability, not to maximize it.