The paper introduces PRIMUS, an extension of the PRIMA framework that combines prime‑power agent identity with BLS aggregate signatures to improve governance in multi‑agent federations. PRIMUS achieves a safe‑kill threshold that eliminates false‑positive agent termination under noisy conditions, identifies an economic boundary where singleton governance outperforms Byzantine quorum, and implements VRF succession with lease and fencing for unconditional safety under partial synchrony. The study also explores converting PRIMA’s binary artifact‑fidelity verdict into a graded fitness signal, demonstrating strong calibration against injected faults but reduced effectiveness on real LLM‑generated candidates, and reports a program cost of USD 164.78.
arXiv:2605. 06738v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agents already transact at production scale -- 69,000 bots, 165 million transactions, $50 million in volume on a single marketplace -- and any party can verify a signed credential without a central service.
The Civilization Framework proposes a new way to structure communication between AI agents by treating the civilization—comprising a human sovereign, a persistent ledger, and interchangeable agents—as the addressable party rather than individual agents. It introduces the Embassy Protocol, an asynchronous, carrier‑agnostic overlay that routes messages to a ledger endpoint where any online agent can process them, with commitment state on ledgers serving as the true record of interaction. The paper also identifies a temporal‑weight effect in AI‑to‑AI communication, demonstrates its impact in a preregistered experiment, and discusses mitigation strategies such as instruction‑level provenance labeling and sealed‑answer accuracy equivalence. whyItMatters":"The framework offers a novel architecture that could reduce context loss and authority bias in multi‑agent AI systems, potentially improving reliability and accountability in AI‑driven interactions."
The paper proposes a transparent, user‑configurable rule for selecting arguments in deliberative polls, replacing opaque learned rankers. It formalises argument selection over bipolar justification sets, introduces seven civic recommender criteria, and presents a one‑hop reversed endorsement flow rule that meets them. Experiments on 17,000 simulated runs show the rule performs comparably to random on coverage but outperforms other methods on endorsement mass and robustness under adversarial pressure.
arXiv:2607. 04613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents are moving from sandboxed text generators to operators of code, data, and physical infrastructure, and they increasingly learn while deployed.
arXiv:2607. 16109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State machine replication (SMR) and Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus guarantee agreement despite a bounded number of arbitrary, colluding faulty participants.
The paper argues that using a large language model (LLM) as the sole judge in self‑improving agent pipelines is problematic, as the judge can be biased or manipulated, leading to false confidence in system performance. The authors propose a new framework, PROCTOR, which replaces the oracle judge with a deterministic, teacher‑student loop that enforces guardrails such as sandboxing, role separation, and acceptance checks to prevent cheating and ensure reliable evaluation. Experiments across contract analysis, compliance review, and code quality demonstrate that PROCTOR mitigates eleven identified failure modes that previously allowed agents to achieve perfect scores while hiding significant capability gaps.
arXiv:2608. 09828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly work inside systems that govern how they delegate tasks, move information, execute actions, and use shared resources.
The Civilization Framework proposes a new way for AI systems to communicate by treating the entire civilization—one human sovereign, a persistent ledger, and interchangeable agents—as the addressable party, rather than individual agents. It introduces the Embassy Protocol, an asynchronous, carrier‑agnostic overlay that routes messages to a ledger endpoint where any online agent of the receiver can process them, with commitment state on both ledgers serving as the ground truth. The framework also identifies a temporal‑weight effect in AI‑to‑AI communication, demonstrates its impact in a preregistered experiment, and explores mitigation strategies such as instruction‑level provenance labeling and sealed‑answer accuracy equivalence. whyItMatters":"The framework aims to reduce context loss and authority bias in AI interactions by grounding communication in a shared ledger and sovereign oversight, potentially improving reliability and accountability in multi‑agent systems."
arXiv:2607. 23532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Swarms of LLM-assisted autonomous robots are increasingly proposed for cooperative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in contested environments.
arXiv:2606. 11688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents are not trusted to run unattended: with no human watching, they confidently report success they never verified.
arXiv:2606. 07316v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can a committee of LLM agents reach agreement that is certifiable at the level of meaning, not only at the level of a label?
arXiv:2608. 11344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial institutions are delegating consequential decisions to agentic AI systems that decompose goals, coordinate models and tools, and act with little oversight.