arXiv AI

Share No More Than the Request Requires: Federated Disclosure for Perspective-Aware AI

arXiv:2607. 22953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AI systems bring societal risks such as mass surveillance, extreme concentrations of power, and loss of user autonomy---calling into question a model where third-parties collect and control massive amounts of user data.

arXiv AI
Jun 19

Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems

arXiv:2606. 19464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agentic AI systems driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce a new class of security, privacy, and compliance challenges: an agent that can invoke tools, manipulate data, install software, and coordinate with peer agents across organizational boundaries must be constrained not just by authentication and access control, but by the full structure of enterprise governance.

By Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Karuna Pande Joshi, Lalana Kagal
arXiv AI
2d ago

Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Identity Assurance for Capability Gating: A Design-Science Proposal for Tiered, Reusable Identity Assurance of Natural, Juridical, and Machine Entities

The paper proposes a tiered, reusable identity assurance model that separates assurance state from capability gates, allowing participants to disclose only what is necessary for each act. It introduces a typed entity taxonomy, a two‑axis coordinate system for assertion scope and source, and a time‑indexed jurisdiction attribute, with reliance recorded in bitemporal snapshots. The design is evaluated against existing flat‑verification and per‑credential models, addressing cross‑border reuse and data‑erasure versus evidentiary retention concerns.

By Walter Kurz
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Mandato: Protocol-Level Enforcement of Digitally Signed Mandates on AI Agent Actions with Cryptographically Chained Audit Trails

arXiv:2608. 14074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly act on external systems through standardized tool-calling protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), yet no infrastructure layer constrains their actions to what a principal has verifiably authorized: authorization logic lives in application code, is neither signed nor independently auditable, and the resulting logs lack evidentiary value.

By Giovanni Racioppi
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Delegation Without Trust: An Empirical Gap Analysis of Identity, Authorization, and Runtime Governance in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

The paper examines the security challenges of delegating authority to autonomous LLM agents that act on users’ behalf. It introduces a threat model with four adversaries and eight security requirements, demonstrates that current frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, MCP) fail to meet these standards, and presents an authorization broker that blocks all identified threats with minimal overhead. The broker is shown to resist numerous attacks and limits compromised sub‑agents to their delegated tasks, and its principles are implemented in VotalAI’s LLM Shield.

By Panduranga Sai Varma Dantuluri, Jyotirmoy Sundi
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI

The paper argues that federated learning, while touted as privacy‑preserving, still concentrates control over the resulting model with the entity that orchestrates training. It identifies three layers—storage, circulation, and learning—where creative communities can exert governance, noting that current practices allow consent for training but not for model ownership or federation. The authors propose four design principles for a creative data commons that extends governance to models, ensures legibility of terms at contribution, incorporates refusal as a first‑class state, and makes stewardship transparent and accountable.

By Phoenix Perry, George Simms, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Boudiaf, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tega Brain, R. Luke DuBois, Alix Rule, Rachel Meade Smith, Kelani Nichole, Atharva Pravin Pawar, Rebecca Fiebrink
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Five Primitives for Governing Autonomous AI Agents at Runtime

The paper proposes five runtime primitives—discovery, identity, governance, attestation, and supply chain—to manage autonomous AI agents in enterprise settings. It argues that traditional control models fail because agents are transient, model-driven, and self‑discoverable, making runtime governance essential. The authors detail an implementation that mediates agent actions against policy, authorizes them via a per‑tenant vocabulary, and records them in a verifiable ledger, noting the associated operational costs and partial deployment status.

By Jiten Oswal, John Cadeddu
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Making AI-Assisted Claims Independently Challengeable: Publication Authority and a Protocol for Falsifiable Publication Records

The paper introduces Publication Authority, a single-use, non-transferable capability that ensures AI-assisted claims can be independently challenged by providing a machine-readable, falsifiable publication record. It presents the PAC-2026 protocol, evaluates its fourth bounded semantic freeze (SF-4), and demonstrates through extensive modeling that the system enforces strict obligations on evidence, authorization, and lifecycle continuity. The study confirms internal coherence, bounded safety, and fault sensitivity, though it does not address factual truth or field efficacy.

By Torsten Olivi Tiltack, Yifei Dong, Kun Yu, Xu Wang, Wei Liu, Jianlong Zhou, Ren Ping Liu, Fang Chen