arXiv AI

Separating Capability from Permission: A Governance Framework for Agentic AI Autonomy Levels

arXiv:2607. 23438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems increasingly exhibit agentic behavior, discussions of autonomy often conflate what systems are technically capable of doing with what they should be permitted to do in practice.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

AI Deployment Accountability Engineering: A Vision for Accountable AI in Safety-Critical Socio-Technical Systems

The paper proposes AI Deployment Accountability Engineering (ADAE), a new subdiscipline focused on establishing measurable, continuous, and actionable accountability for AI systems once they are deployed. ADAE treats accountability as a deployment-layer property, aiming to ensure systems remain within acceptable risk limits, identify failure contexts, attribute failures across technical and human components, and translate technical failures into downstream consequences. The authors outline a research agenda built around four pillars—structured discovery of context-dependent failure modes, privacy-preserving accountability measurement, system-level risk analysis for agentic AI, and translation of technical failures into operational and institutional risks—to support timely intervention in safety-critical socio-technical environments.

By Murat Kantarcioglu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

A Theory of Least Autonomy in AI

arXiv:2607. 09744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Least privilege, the principle that an identity should hold only the permissions strictly required for its task, has been a foundational primitive of access control for decades.

By Christophe Parisel
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Regulating autonomous and agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 21345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Regulating activities where regulatees use autonomous and agentic AI is challenging.

By Chris Reed, Alex Austria, Anmol Bharuka, Pragnitha Mandava, Khushiya Mujawar, Luka Shakhkulashvili