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PublishedJuly 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The Autonomous Agency Scale: A Behavioral Framework for Measuring Self-Directed Behavior in AI Systems
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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. A system can saturate capability benchmarks while
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