2026
Position: Knowing Isn’t Understanding: Re-grounding Generative Proactivity with Epistemic and Behavioral Insight
ICML 2026poster
Generative AI agents equate *understanding* with resolving explicit queries, an assumption that confines interaction to what users can articulate. This assumption breaks down when users themselves lack awareness of what is missing, risky, or worth considering. In such conditions, proactivity is not …