EPISODE · Jun 27, 2026 · 22 MIN
AI Agents Are Not Agents Yet
from AI Odyssey · host Anlie Arnaudy, Daniel Herbera and Guillaume Fournier
What if today’s “AI agents” are mostly automation pipelines wearing a more ambitious label?This episode explores Critique of Agent Model, a paper that draws a sharp line between agentic systems, which look autonomous because engineers scaffold workflows around them, and agentive systems, where goals, identity, decisions, self-regulation, and learning are internal to the system itself.The authors propose a Goal-Identity-Configurator (GIC) architecture as a path toward genuine machine agency, while keeping the central safety question unavoidable: greater autonomy also makes oversight significantly more difficult.Inspired by the work of Eric Xing, Mingkai Deng, and Jinyu Hou, this episode was created using Google’s NotebookLM.Read the original paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23991
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What if today’s “AI agents” are mostly automation pipelines wearing a more ambitious label?This episode explores Critique of Agent Model, a paper that draws a sharp line between agentic systems, which look autonomous because engineers scaffold workflows around them, and agentive systems, where goals, identity, decisions, self-regulation, and learning are internal to the system itself.The authors propose a Goal-Identity-Configurator (GIC) architecture as a path toward genuine machine agency, while keeping the central safety question unavoidable: greater autonomy also makes oversight significantly more difficult.Inspired by the work of Eric Xing, Mingkai Deng, and Jinyu Hou, this episode was created using Google’s NotebookLM.Read the original paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23991
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AI Agents Are Not Agents Yet
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