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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 paper presents a model for continuous participatory governance of deployed AI agents, focusing on resource allocation (compute budgets) as a means to enforce authorization and ensure safe AI. The mechanism involves a game where verified stakeholders contribute in a distinct governance currency during each governance period. A funding aggregator converts these contributions into effective supports, which determine the AI agent's compute budget through binary authorization and a safety ceiling.

What the Document Says

  • The paper presents a mechanism design model for continuous participatory governance of deployed AI agents.
  • The mechanism is based on controlling an AI agent through resource allocation (compute budgets).
  • The goal is to make authorization self-enforcing via compute budgets.
  • The Safe AI paradigm is established, stating that compute is an effective governance lever.
  • The work serves as a compliance or commons overlay on a deployer.
  • Each governance period is an extensive form game where verified human stakeholders contribute in a distinct governance currency.
  • A funding aggregator converts raw contributions into breadth weighted effective supports.
  • A two-threshold gate with hysteresis converts net support into binary authorization.
  • The binary authorization releases a metered compute budget, realized as a signed compute license.
  • The mechanism can govern a certain class of agents and identifies manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent as the central open problem.
  • Challenges addressing manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agents are also introduced.

Key Concepts Mentioned

  • participatory governance
  • deployed AI agents
  • resource allocation
  • compute budgets
  • Safe AI paradigm
  • extensive form game
  • governance currency
  • funding aggregator
  • binary authorization
  • safety ceiling
  • signed compute license

Claims Made by the Document

  • The mechanism presented can ensure safe AI.
  • Manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent is a significant problem.

Evidence Used

  • The paper outlines a formal model for participatory governance of deployed AI agents that focuses on resource allocation and compute budgets.
  • The Safe AI paradigm is stated in the text, suggesting its role as a claim.

Methods / Approach

  • Formal mechanism design
  • Extensive form game theory
  • Resource allocation through compute budgets

Limitations Stated by the Authors

The authors identify manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent as the central open problem.

Limitations Noted by the Agent

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Open Questions

  • What is the specific class of agents that the mechanism can govern?
  • How effectively does this mechanism address manipulation by the governed agent?

Notes for Future Q&A

May include interpretation. Labeled where it does.

The text provides some insight into the open problems and challenges, but further research or analysis might be necessary to fully understand these aspects.

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.