{
  "id": 3796,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24823v1",
  "title": "Agent Manufacturing: Foundation-Model Agents as First-Class Industrial Entities",
  "summary": "Manufacturing has passed through four widely recognized paradigms - mechanization, electrification, programmable automation, and Smart Manufacturing - each defined by the kind of work it shifted from humans to machines. In every case, one layer of industrial work remained fundamentally human: the coordinative cognition of production, comprising the interpretive, allocative, diagnostic, negotiative, and governance work exercised by engineers, planners, and operational managers. We argue that a fi",
  "authors": "Yilei Zhang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,jobs-economy,healthcare,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-24T02:27:44.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:31.921Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/3796",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24823v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}