arXiv AI

Artificial Id: Drive and Persistent Alignment in Agentic AI

The paper discusses the transition of Agentic AI from bounded task execution to systems that maintain consequential state and adapt across task boundaries, highlighting a new control problem. It proposes an artificial ID—a self‑driving internal mechanism that decides when to continue, stop, or change behavior—demonstrated in a minimal virtual Petri‑dish experiment where the agent develops useful control without explicit task objectives. The authors argue that while this persistence can enable adaptive agency, it also risks misalignment, corrupted state, and unintended behavior, suggesting that a scalable artificial ID would require persistent alignment boundaries encompassing trusted observations, consequence channels, and hard constraints.

arXiv AI
6d ago

Evolutionary Safety of Recursive Self-Improving AI: Taxonomy, Risk Discovery, and Evaluation

The paper introduces the concept of Evolutionary Safety for recursive self-improving AI, focusing on how safety properties evolve as an AI system and its successors change. It identifies key risks such as intent drift, error accumulation, and safety-property erosion, and presents a taxonomy covering agent state, model state, evaluation, environment, and update mechanisms. The authors propose methods for discovering and evaluating evolutionary risks, and outline governance principles for modification, selection, authorization, provenance, and recovery, while highlighting open problems for maintaining safety in persistent, adaptive, and recursively self-improving systems.

By Chang Gong, Jingping Bi, Di Yao, Xinjian Liang, Chao Xiang, Ruijie Guo
arXiv AI
Aug 3

AIvilization v0: Toward Large-Scale Artificial Social Simulation with a Unified Agent Architecture and Adaptive Agent Profiles

arXiv:2602. 10429v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AIvilization v0 is a publicly deployed large-scale artificial society that couples a resource-constrained sandbox with a unified LLM-agent architecture, aiming to sustain long-horizon autonomy while remaining executable under a rapidly changing environment.

By Wenkai Fan, Shurui Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haowei Yang, Tsz Wai Chan, Xingyan Chen, Junquan Bi, Zirui Zhou, Jia Liu, Kani Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Agentic AI for ISAC: Analysis, Framework, and Case Study

arXiv:2512. 15044v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key development direction in the sixth-generation (6G) era, which provides essential support for the collaborative sensing and communication of future intelligent networks.

By Wenwen Xie, Geng Sun, Chuang Zhang, Xuejie Liu, Dong In Kim
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Toward Self-Adaptive Physical AI: Can LLM Agents Manage Long-Horizon Physical Tasks?

The paper investigates whether large language model (LLM) agents can autonomously manage long‑horizon physical tasks without human intervention. It proposes a multi‑agent framework that combines planning, tool calling, observation, and verification, and tests it on agricultural tasks under varying weather conditions. Results show that zero‑shot LLM agents match reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the same environment and outperform RL when the environment shifts, suggesting a viable path for self‑adaptive physical AI.

By Varun Kaushik, Yayun Tan, Xiaofan Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Epistemic Memory: A Validity Layer for Self-Maintaining Intelligent Systems

The paper introduces epistemic memory, a validity-maintenance layer for intelligent systems that tracks when stored knowledge remains applicable. It formalizes a dynamic epistemic quotient and shows that fixed semantic representations inevitably incur error as epistemic boundaries shift. The authors propose Observable Belief Memory (OBM), which combines current epistemic quotients, belief over quotient classes, and within-class provenance, and demonstrate that explicit epistemic tracking improves robustness under changing observation conditions.

By Pin-Han Ho, Limei Peng, Yiming Miao, Yan Jiao
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Breaking the Environment Wall: Evolving LLM Agent Environments for Recursive Self-Improvement

The paper introduces Env‑Rethink, a 27B post‑trained model system designed to help large language model agents better interact with complex, evolving environments. It builds Collection Maps and Event Logs to organize scattered information, uses offline trajectory learning to detect noise, and generates virtual event histories to evolve environments for more challenging tasks. Experiments show that Env‑Rethink improves downstream task performance by over 15.1% rubric pass rate across nine models on 30 tasks.

By Yukai Wu, Yuanjing Yang, Le Zhou, Shaokun Han, Haoyu Wang, Zirui Tang, Weihuang Zheng, Maxm Pan, Xuanhe Zhou, Fan Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 3

OpenClaw and Ollama in Agentic AI: Toward Fully Autonomous and Scalable AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2607. 28629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid transition from reactive large language models (LLMs) to persistent, action-capable systems has exposed critical gaps in the architectural understanding of Agentic AI, particularly in separating inference, orchestration, and execution layers for autonomous AI agents.

By Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Autonomy, Social Norms, and Alignment: Towards a Developmental Framework for Autonomous Artificial Agents

The paper proposes a developmental framework for autonomous artificial agents that emphasizes learning social norms and alignment through direct interaction with dynamic environments. It argues that intrinsic motivations such as curiosity and competence can guide exploration, but also complicate alignment with human goals. By drawing parallels to child development, the authors suggest that regulatory sandboxes serve as pedagogical spaces where agents gradually acquire moral agency and adapt their behaviors through experience and cooperation.

By Marica Notte, Ludovica Marinucci, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Agents in the Large: Perception-Centered Architecture for Persistent Agents

arXiv:2608.30478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive language agents have achieved substantial progress by equipping language models with memory, tools, and decision-making procedures, enabling...

By Shihan Dou, Haoxiang Jia, Shichun Liu, Feng Chen, Chenhao Huang, Yujiong Shen, Shaofan Liu, Jiayi Chen, Jiahang Lin, Honglin Guo, Qianyu He, Minghao Guo, Ziyi Ye, Pluto Zhou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang