From Titanic to AI: Ten Human Disasters That Predict How Your Agent Will Fail

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AI agents don’t invent new ways to fail — they inherit ours. Peer-reviewed research confirms they amplify human cognitive biases and create feedback loops with no natural circuit breaker. This analysis maps ten catastrophic human failures to the biases that caused them, then projects how an AI agent would have made each one worse.