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The future isn’t autonomous AI without limits. It’s AI with enough autonomy to create leverage—and enough boundaries to remain trustworthy. #89
Season 2
Episode 98
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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The TopCat AI Signal Report #89
THE TOPCAT FRAMEWORK — BOUNDED AUTONOMY
So I’m adding a simple framework to our Signal vocabulary:
MISSION
What is the agent trying to accomplish?
ACCESS
What information can it see?
AUTHORITY
What can it change?
LIMITS
What can it never do?
ESCALATION
When must it ask a human?
AUDIT
Can we reconstruct what happened?
SHUTDOWN
Can we stop it immediately?
That’s the architecture of bounded autonomy.
And I think we’re going to hear that concept more and more.