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Auteurs principaux: Osmond, Marcel, Jego, Thomas
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Publié: 2026
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author Osmond, Marcel
Jego, Thomas
author_facet Osmond, Marcel
Jego, Thomas
contents This article presents the first systematic comparative survey of how public bodies, international organisations, national regulators, and the private sector define agentic artificial intelligence, identifying the technical inaccuracies pervading each definition. Analysing eleven regulatory instruments and industry frameworks -- including the EU AI Act, the OECD/G7 Principles, NIST, the UK ICO, and the European Commission -- alongside six leading developer architectures, this study demonstrates a persistent definitional gap: legal definitions consistently conflate model capability with agentic architecture, attribute cognitive deliberation to probabilistic token prediction, and treat autonomy as a scalar property rather than a structural shift from single-inference to iterative execution loops with tool integration. A consensus technical definition synthesised from developer documentation is proposed. The article examines the consequences of this gap, demonstrating that definitional imprecision produces regulatory instruments structurally incapable of governing the actual mechanisms -- system prompts, API permissions, sandboxing, and orchestration code -- that constitute agentic autonomy.
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spellingShingle Mind The Gap: How The Technical Mechanism Of Agentic AI Outpace Global Legal Frameworks
Osmond, Marcel
Jego, Thomas
Computers and Society
This article presents the first systematic comparative survey of how public bodies, international organisations, national regulators, and the private sector define agentic artificial intelligence, identifying the technical inaccuracies pervading each definition. Analysing eleven regulatory instruments and industry frameworks -- including the EU AI Act, the OECD/G7 Principles, NIST, the UK ICO, and the European Commission -- alongside six leading developer architectures, this study demonstrates a persistent definitional gap: legal definitions consistently conflate model capability with agentic architecture, attribute cognitive deliberation to probabilistic token prediction, and treat autonomy as a scalar property rather than a structural shift from single-inference to iterative execution loops with tool integration. A consensus technical definition synthesised from developer documentation is proposed. The article examines the consequences of this gap, demonstrating that definitional imprecision produces regulatory instruments structurally incapable of governing the actual mechanisms -- system prompts, API permissions, sandboxing, and orchestration code -- that constitute agentic autonomy.
title Mind The Gap: How The Technical Mechanism Of Agentic AI Outpace Global Legal Frameworks
topic Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27075