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When Intelligence Becomes Agency: A Theory of Governed, Proactive Agency for Symbiotic AI Systems

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Persistent AI assistants are intended to extend human attention, memory, and coordination across changing digital and physical environments. To be truly useful they must do more than just act when asked. They must decide on their own whether a situation warrants behavior at all, when it does and in what mode, whether to act, ask, monitor, defer or deliberately refrain. We call this the activation problem. Research on commitment, appraisal, mixed-initiative interaction and delegation each illuminates part of it, but none ties situated activation to continuing authorization and accountability. T

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