Yao, Shunyu

Distributing Accountability, Not Capability: Phase Separation and the LLM Workflow Quadrant in Autonomous AI Agent Architectures

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Autonomous AI agents in business deployments exhibit a recurring failure mode: when an incident occurs, responsibility cannot be redirected to a separable contributor. The dominant discourse treats this as a single phenomenon, addressed by sandboxing, …