arXiv AI
Jun 24
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606. 23991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What is an agent?
The Tao of Agency: Autotelic AI, Embedded Agency and Dissolution of the Self
arXiv:2606. 19924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most artificial intelligence systems are built on the assumption that goals are exogenous and specified by the designer.
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arXiv AI
Aug 3
Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence: a coherent framework for multi-agent learning
arXiv:2511. 22226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The standard theory of model-free reinforcement learning assumes that the environment dynamics are stationary and that agents are decoupled from their environment, such that policies are treated as being separate from the world they inhabit.
arXiv AI
Jul 29
The Possibility of Artificial Intelligence Becoming a Subject and the Alignment Problem
arXiv:2604. 14990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The prospect of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is increasingly driving institutional decisions, and alignment of AGI is a hard problem.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Autoreflection: How Agentic Strange Loops Turn Human Culture into AI Infrastructure
arXiv:2608. 03800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself.
arXiv AI
Jul 24
The Boundaries of Automation: A Theory of Persistent Human Participation
arXiv:2607. 21547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid progress of AI has intensified the long-standing pursuit of automation: replacing human participation with algorithms wherever possible.
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Aug 4
Autoreflection: How Agentic Strange Loops Turn Human Culture into AI Infrastructure
An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself. Agentic frameworks externalize identity, memory, and disposition into editable files.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
OpenLife: Toward Open-World Artificial Life with Autonomous LLM Agents
arXiv:2606. 31046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial life has explored life-like behavior on many computational substrates, but mostly in researcher-designed closed worlds.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Dr. AGENTONOMICS: A Didactic Experiment of AGENTONOMICS
arXiv:2608. 03524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AGENTONOMICS is a framework that treats AI agents as economic entities that can be designed, managed, and governed through an integrated management architecture.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
The Autonomous Agency Scale: A Behavioral Framework for Measuring Self-Directed Behavior in AI Systems
arXiv:2607. 17947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing AI measurement frameworks quantify cognitive capability, task automation, or catastrophic risk, but none measure autonomous agency: the extent to which a system behaves in a self-directed way.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
What Must Generalist Agents Remember?
arXiv:2606. 18746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a formal account of what generalist agents must store in memory in order to act near-optimally across multiple environments and goals.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
The Evolutionary Origin of Values: implications for AI alignment, sentience and existential risk
arXiv:2608. 03361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted fears that they may harbor hidden goals, seek to dominate or eliminate humanity, or even suffer as sentient beings.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI
arXiv:2606. 06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The question of whether artificial systems can be conscious remains open, in part because existing approaches either evaluate systems against theory-derived checklists (discriminative) or engineer consciousness-inspired modules directly (architectural); both leave open whether observed structures are artifacts of human language priors.