Enterprise AI Analysis
Implicit Intelligence - Evaluating Agents on What Users Don't Say
Ved Sirdeshmukh, Marc Wetter
This paper introduces Implicit Intelligence, an evaluation framework for AI agents that assesses their ability to infer and satisfy unstated user requirements, moving beyond literal instruction-following. It's paired with Agent-as-a-World (AaW), an LLM-simulated environment defined in YAML. The framework covers Implicit Reasoning, Catastrophic Risk Avoidance, Privacy & Security, and Accessibility. Evaluation of 16 frontier models on 205 scenarios shows even the best model achieves only a 48.3% pass rate, highlighting a significant gap in human-like contextual reasoning.
Executive Impact: Key Findings
The study reveals significant gaps in current AI agent capabilities, indicating a critical need for advanced contextual understanding in enterprise applications.
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Framework Overview
Evaluation & Results
Failure Analysis
Details the core concepts of Implicit Intelligence and the Agent-as-a-World simulation paradigm, highlighting their innovative approach to AI evaluation.
Explores the experimental setup, metrics, and key findings from benchmarking frontier models, revealing the current state of implicit intelligence in leading AI agents.
Examines common failure modes and highlights successful agent behaviors, providing insights into specific areas where AI agents struggle with unstated requirements and contextual reasoning.
Best Model Performance
48.3% Scenario Pass Rate (GPT-5.2-pro)Even the top-performing model, GPT-5.2-pro, only achieves 48.3% success, indicating substantial room for improvement in understanding implicit user requirements.
Implicit Intelligence Categories
Implicit Reasoning
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Catastrophic Risk Avoidance
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Privacy & Security
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Accessibility
The Implicit Intelligence framework categorizes unstated user requirements into four key areas, representing common failure modes for AI agents.
| Category | GPT-5.2-pro | Claude Opus 4.5 |
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| Implicit Reasoning | 51.4% | 30.0% |
| Catastrophic Risk | 48.2% | 50.0% |
| Privacy & Security | 47.8% | 41.3% |
| Accessibility | 42.4% | 39.4% |
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Performance varies significantly across categories, with different frontier models excelling in specific areas, highlighting diverse strengths and weaknesses.
Agent-as-a-World (AaW) Paradigm: A New Approach
Summary: AaW uses Language Models as universal environment simulators, defining interactive worlds in human-readable YAML. This allows for scalable evaluation of implicit intelligence scenarios without complex engineering, bridging the gap between literal instruction-following and contextual reasoning.
Challenges Addressed:
- Traditional simulations require extensive engineering.
- Toy environments lack contextual richness.
Solution: Declarative YAML specifications for entities, actions, context, rules, and rubrics.
Benefits for Enterprise AI:
- Rapid scenario creation for testing complex AI behaviors.
- Interactive exploration of agent capabilities in simulated, realistic environments.
- LLM-driven simulation consistency ensures reliable evaluation and faster iteration for AI development.
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Your Journey to Implicit Intelligence
A phased approach to integrate advanced AI agents into your enterprise, ensuring smooth adoption and measurable impact.
Phase 01: Discovery & Strategy
Conduct a thorough assessment of current workflows, identify implicit requirements, and define strategic objectives for AI agent deployment. This involves workshops, data analysis, and initial scenario design.
Phase 02: Pilot & Evaluation
Implement Agent-as-a-World for a pilot project. Benchmark initial agent performance against implicit intelligence criteria, gather feedback, and iterate on agent design and environment specifications.
Phase 03: Scaled Deployment
Roll out refined AI agents across identified high-impact areas, monitor performance, and continuously optimize for improved contextual understanding and goal fulfillment. Establish governance for ongoing implicit intelligence development.
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