RESEARCH SERIES / Autonomy

The Authority Gap

Governing systems that can decide and act

THE THESIS

Autonomous agents create an authority gap when practical power moves into a system before accountability, permission and evidence are redesigned around it.

THE CHARTER

The Charter of Accountable Autonomy

No consequential machine action should exist without legible human authority.

DUTIES

Name a human principal
Scope authority by action, amount, data and time
Design evidence and reversibility before delegation

RED LINES

No unowned consequential action
No invisible permission expansion
No agent-on-agent review presented as independent assurance

EXECUTIVE TESTCould a responsible human explain, stop and reconstruct the action before harm compounds?

PRESSURE-TEST

Put this charter beside another and expose the governance gap.

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