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cs.AI2026
A three-dimensional typology of agency for advanced AI systems
Willem Fourie
Research on the agency of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems focuses on agency as a normative concept and on the agency of particularly agentic AI systems. While recent…
cs.AI2026
Mitigating loss of control in advanced AI systems through instrumental goal trajectories
Willem Fourie
Researchers at artificial intelligence labs and universities are concerned that highly capable artificial intelligence (AI) systems may erode human control by pursuing instrumental…
cs.AI2025
An Aristotelian ontology of instrumental goals: Structural features to be managed and not failures to be eliminated
Willem Fourie
Instrumental goals such as resource acquisition, power-seeking, and self-preservation are key to contemporary AI alignment research, yet the phenomenon's ontology remains under-the…