Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and communication in agents
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Abstract: This paper presents the Artificial Agency Program (AAP), a position and research agenda for building AI systems as reality embedded, resource-bounded agents whose development is driven by curiosity-as-learning-progress under physical and computational constraints. The central thesis is that AI is most useful when treated as part of an extended human--tool system that increases sensing, understanding, and actuation capability while reducing frictio
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--> Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2602.24100 [Submitted on 27 Feb 2026] Title: Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and communication in agents Authors: Richard Csaky View a PDF of the paper titled Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and communication in agents, by Richard Csaky View PDF HTML Abstract: This paper presents the Artificial Agency Program , a position and research agenda for building AI systems as reality embedded, resource-bounded agents whose development is driven by curiosity-as-learning-progress under physical and computational constraints. The central thesis is that AI is most useful when treated as part of an extended human--tool system that increases sensing, understanding, and actuation capability while reducing friction at the interface between people, tools, and environments. The agenda unifies predictive compression, intrinsic motivation, empowerment and control, interface quality , and language/self-communication as selective information bottlenecks. We formulate these ideas as a falsifiable program with explicit costs, staged experiments, and a concrete multimodal tokenized testbed in which an agent allocates limited budget among observation, action, and deliberation. The aim is to provide a conceptual and experimental framework that connects intrinsic motivation, information theory, thermodynamics, bounded rationality, and modern reasoning systems Comments: This is a working draft. Feedback and criticism is most welcome Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2602.24100 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2602.24100v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.24100 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Richard Csaky [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:40:31 UTC (20 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and ...
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