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.
By Haining Zheng, Qian Dong, Rodolfo K. Depena, Jonathan D. Bhatia, Feng Xiao, Peng Xu
The paper reviews how large language models have evolved into agents that can influence external environments through tool use, interface operation, delegation, state retention, virtual world inhabitation, and robotic control. It critiques the narrative of a single march toward autonomy, distinguishing model competence from system integration, persistence, and safe authority. The authors find that action-interface expansion is well documented, while robust completion, recovery, authorization, and independent verification remain less proven, and they propose a framework of justified delegation to guide future research.
By Linsen Zhu, Mengqing Cai
arXiv:2608. 09857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in advanced artificial intelligence tools have sparked research in robot autonomy, but the development of such systems has largely focused on execution rather than verifying the feasibility actions planning models propose.
By Rohan Bhagra, Mahantesh Halapannavar, Uddhav Bhattarai
arXiv:2607. 18243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI is crossing trust boundaries faster than current risk models can represent.
By Hassan Karim, Sai Sitharaman, Deepti Gupta, Danda B. Rawat
arXiv:2607. 00334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents, whether LLM-driven software agents or robotic physical agents, face a common class of failure modes when operating without continuous human oversight: safety violations from unverified actions, behavioral instability from unconstrained loops, and continuity loss from unhandled error states.
By Srini Ramaswamy, Wang Miaosheng
arXiv:2607. 17225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems do not just predict or recommend; they plan, maintain state, and act in external environments with varying degrees of autonomy.
By Chetan Arora, Andreas Vogelsang, Abbi Sharma
arXiv:2606. 15563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly delegate decisions to specialized models, evaluators, tools, and supervisory controllers.
By Carlos R. B. Azevedo
arXiv:2607. 26121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied intelligence integrates learned perception and decision making with real-time computation, control, and physical interaction.
By Xinyu Yang, Tianxing Chen, Honghao Su, Minxuan Wang, Chenze Yu, Zhangzheng Tu, Yue Chen, Yuxiao Huo, Lingfeng Zhang, Yan Huang, Yan Qin, Shaolong Zhu, Qiwei Liang, Hekun Tian, Shujia Liu, Guangyu Chen, Junhao Gong, Zixuan Li, Wenwei Lin, Zijian Lin, Wenxuan Zhu, Eric J Chen, Yue Yuan, Qize Yu, Jiaqi Liang, Haowen Yan, Hengfei Zhao, Weijie Wan, Zikun Xiao, Junyuan Tang, Baijun Chen, Kai-Chong Lei, Kaixuan Wang, Kailun Su, Zanxin Chen, Yao Mu, Renjing Xu, Chuqiao Lyu, Qi Xiong, Ping Luo, Wenbo Ding
arXiv:2609.40306v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Pretrained robot policies provide useful action priors, but long-horizon manipulation still requires coordination between semantic reasoning and phys...
By Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang, Langning Yan, Hongye Cao, Ziwei Wang
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.
By Yakov Pyotr Shkolnikov
arXiv:2607. 10878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are evolving from answer engines into persistent teams that use tools, delegate work, learn from experience, and modify the artifacts that shape their future behavior.
By Yuma Ichikawa, Yamato Arai, Kosaku Kimura, Akira Sakai, Hiromichi Kobashi
arXiv:2607. 18366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) serving as planners in tool-using autonomous agents introduce dynamic reliability risks in multi-turn execution.
By Shasha Yu, Fiona Carroll, Barry L. Bentley