The future isn’t autonomous AI without limits. It’s AI with enough autonomy to create leverage—and enough boundaries to remain trustworthy. #89

The TopCat AI Signal Report #89THE TOPCAT FRAMEWORK — BOUNDED AUTONOMYSo I’m adding a simple framework to our Signal vocabulary:MISSIONWhat is the agent trying to accomplish?ACCESSWhat information can it see?AUTHORITYWhat can it change?LIMITSWhat can it never do?ESCALATIONWhen must it ask a human?AUDITCan we reconstruct what happened?SHUTDOWNCan we stop it immediately?That’s the architecture of bounded autonomy.And I think we’re going to hear that concept more and more.