论文定义Agent与agency的五个维度

// Critique of the Agent Model //

Finally, a paper that tries to define what an agent is and what agency consists of.

Good read overall. (great bookmark)

The word agent now covers everything from a for-loop with tool calls to speculative machine superintelligence.

Eric Xing and colleagues ask where automation ends, and agency begins.

Drawing on Descartes and on science-fiction portrayals of autonomous beings, they analyze agent architectures along five dimensions: goal, identity, decision-making, self-regulation, and learning.

The argument is that genuine agency requires these structures to hold together in a specific way. Great paper overall, providing a vocabulary for arguing about what is and is not an agent.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23991

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