{
  "id": 17753,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06510",
  "title": "Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Enclosure?",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.06510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI promises a more flexible form of digital agency: systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to selecting services. Whether it will empower users is an open question, and we argue that the answer depends on more than the technology. We conduct a comparative case analysis of four more mature domains where similar forms of agency arose: browser-based ad blockers, platform recommender systems, financi",
  "authors": "David Gamba, Daniel M. Romero, Grant Schoenebeck",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17753",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06510",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}