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Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents

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arXiv

arxiv.org/abs/2608.06353v1

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The authors propose a model for continuous participatory governance of AI agents through resource allocation, specifically compute budgets, to make authorization self-enforcing. The model is designed as a compliance overlay on a deployer and involves an extensive form game where verified human stakeholders contribute in a distinct governance currency during each governance period.

What the Document Says

  • The authors present a mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of AI agents.
  • The model is based on resource allocation (compute budgets) to enforce authorization.
  • The governance currency used is distinct from the agent's compute.
  • Each governance period is an extensive form game with verified human stakeholders contributing sequentially.
  • A funding aggregator converts raw contributions into effective supports.
  • A two-threshold gate with hysteresis converts net support into a binary authorization.
  • The binary authorization releases a metered compute budget, realized in hardware as a signed compute license.
  • The model aims to establish the Safe AI paradigm where compute is an effective governance lever.
  • The authors identify manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent as the central open problem.
  • Several challenges addressing manipulation by the governed agents are also introduced.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • AI agent governance
  • participatory governance
  • compute budgets
  • Safe AI paradigm
  • extensive form game
  • verified human stakeholders
  • governance currency
  • funding aggregator
  • binary authorization
  • metered compute budget
  • signed compute license
  • manipulation of the governing electorate

Claims Made by the Document

  • The model can effectively govern AI agents through resource allocation.
  • Manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent is a significant issue.

Evidence Used

  • Formal mechanism design model for continuous participatory governance of AI agents
  • Model built on principle that governance controls an AI agent through compute budgets

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

We give a formal mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of a deployed AI agent. The mechanism is built on the principle that governance should control an AI agent through resource allocation so as to make authorization self enforcing via compute budgets. The mechanism seeks to establish the Safe AI paradigm that compute is an effective governance lever. We situate our work as a compliance or commons overlay on a deployer. One governance period is an extensive form game in which verified human stakeholders arrive sequentially and contribute, on a provision or a rejection market, in a governance currency that is deliberately distinct from the agents compute. A funding aggregator turns raw contributions into breadth weighted effective supports - a two threshold gate with hysteresis converts net support into a binary authorization that, through a coupling map bounded by an exogenously certified safety ceiling, releases a metered compute budget - realized in hardware as a signed compute license so that the decision is self-enforcing. We characterize the class of agents the mechanism can govern and isolate manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent as the central open problem. We also introduce several challenges addressing manipulation of governing electorate by the governed agents.