{
  "id": 4241,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16728v1",
  "title": "Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents",
  "summary": "This paper proposes a minimal architecture for body-grounded perspective formation in artificial agents. Extending prior work, the model introduces an interoceptive viability signal, a Fisher-style metric over fused exteroceptive-interoceptive states, and a conative alignment mechanism linking bodily tendency to action readiness. In a reward-free gridworld, conation converts learned bodily tendency into stable body-directed behavior, while body-to-perspective routing allows bodily perturbations ",
  "authors": "Hongju Pae",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-16T00:30:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:50.573Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4241",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16728v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}