{
  "id": 12222,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17947v1",
  "title": "The Autonomous Agency Scale: A Behavioral Framework for Measuring Self-Directed Behavior in AI Systems",
  "summary": "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 remaining entirely reactive, acting only when prompted and ceasing all activity when a task completes. We introduce the Autonomous Agency Scale (AAS), a behavioral framework that scores AI systems on a 0-5 lexicon across seven dimensions of agency:",
  "authors": "Samuel Presgraves",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-20T13:49:10.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-21T05:10:12.656Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-ai",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12222",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17947v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}