Governance · Concept
Accountability Asymmetry in Autonomous AI Systems
Argues AI agents lack human-operator consequence bearing, so governance should treat them as infrastructure reliability problems.
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Resourced Authority: Compute-Budget Participatory AI Governance Accountability asymmetry motivates infrastructure-style controls such as metered compute authorization.
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Resourced Authority: Compute-Budget Participatory AI Governance Mechanism makes authorization self-enforcing via signed compute licenses bounded by a safety ceiling.
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Agentic AI Governance: Systematic Literature Review Paper reframes autonomous agent trust as infrastructure reliability under accountability asymmetry.
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EU AI Act timeline Aug 2025
EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI models applied from 2 Aug 2025; high-risk obligations under Annex III apply from 2 Aug 2026.
EU AI Act — implementation tracker → First binding treaty May 2026
The Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI — the first legally binding international AI treaty — opened for signature in Sep 2024; the EU ratified it on 15 May 2026.
Council of Europe → UN scientific panel Aug 2025
On 26 Aug 2025 the UN General Assembly created an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (40 experts) and a Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
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