Silent Scholars, No More: When Uncertainty Becomes an Agent’s Survival Instinct
Opening — Why this matters now LLM agents today are voracious readers and remarkably poor conversationalists in the epistemic sense. They browse, retrieve, summarize, and reason—yet almost never talk back to the knowledge ecosystem they depend on. This paper names the cost of that silence with refreshing precision: epistemic asymmetry. Agents consume knowledge, but do not reciprocate, verify, or negotiate truth with the world. ...