// Critique of the Agent Model // Finally, a paper that tries to define what an agent is and what agency consists of. Good read overall. (gr…

// Critique of the Agent Model // Finally, a paper that tries to define what an agent is and what agency consists of. Good read overall. (great bookmark) The word agent now covers everything from a for-loop with tool calls to speculative machine superintelligence. Eric Xing and colleagues ask where automation ends, and agency begins. Drawing on Descartes and on science-fiction portrayals of autonomous beings, they analyze agent architectures along five dimensions: goal, identity, decision-making, self-regulation, and learning. The argument is that genuine agency requires these structures to hold together in a specific way. Great paper overall, providing a vocabulary for arguing about what is and is not an agent. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23991 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://academy.dair.ai/

Source: DAIR.AI (X) | 2026-06-24