Agentic AI Governance
agentic_systems_governance · AI-governance topic
Agentic AI Governance is obligations specific to AI systems that take autonomous multi-step actions (browse, transact, plan, recurse). Distinct from foundation_models (capability) and catastrophic_risk (outcome) — this is the action-surface frame. Surfaces in EU AI Office GPAI Code drafts, UK AISI agent evaluations, Seoul Frontier AI Safety Commitments §3, NIST AI 600-1. Across 26 tracked AI-governance instruments, 5 address this topic explicitly, 9 via general principles, and 12 are silent.
Definition and scope
Obligations specific to AI systems that take autonomous multi-step actions (browse, transact, plan, recurse). Distinct from foundation_models (capability) and catastrophic_risk (outcome) — this is the action-surface frame. Surfaces in EU AI Office GPAI Code drafts, UK AISI agent evaluations, Seoul Frontier AI Safety Commitments §3, NIST AI 600-1.
The cross-jurisdiction picture below shows how each of 26 tracked instruments treats this topic. The patterns vary substantially — and 12 regimes are silent, leaving gaps that future policy work could address.
Historical primacy & cross-jurisdiction tension
First addressed by NIST AI Risk Management Framework on (implicit). Subsequent regimes have either codified, diverged from, or remained silent on this baseline.
- Forum-shoppingSeoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AI↔Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI
- Forum-shoppingNIST AI RMF Generative AI Profile↔Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI
- Forum-shoppingAnthropic Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) v2↔UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper)
Cross-jurisdiction coverage
At a glance — same legend as the hub matrix
Silent regimes — gap signal
Instruments that do not address Agentic AI Governance — candidates for future policy work.
- Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AIUS
- Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AIUS
- UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper)UK
- OECD AI Principles (Recommendation)OECD
- UN GA Resolution on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AIUN
- California SB-1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier AI Models ActUS
- India Digital Personal Data Protection Act + AI Advisory (MEITY)IN
- ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and EthicsASEAN
- African Union Continental AI StrategyAfrican_Union
- White House Voluntary AI CommitmentsUS
- Singapore Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AISG
- Japan METI AI Guidelines for BusinessJP
References
- EU-AIA-2024: Arts. 26-29 deployer obligations apply to agent operators; Arts. 51-55 GPAI obligations capture the underlying model
- CN-GENAI-2023: Arts. 4, 8 (service-provision scope) — agent-like generative services fall within registration + safety-assessment obligations
- G7-HIROSHIMA: Code §1 'advanced AI systems' + §3 risk-identification cover agentic behaviour through capability frame
- COE-AI-CONV: General-AI scope (Art. 3) covers agent systems; no agent-specific provision
- NIST-AI-RMF: Map / Manage functions apply to autonomous systems; no agent-specific profile yet
- BLETCHLEY-2023: Frontier-AI risk frame includes autonomous-action risks; no specific obligation
- SEOUL-2024: Frontier AI Safety Commitments §3 — pre-deployment capability evaluations include agentic behaviours under 'realistic deployment conditions'
- NIST-AI-RMF-GENAI: NIST AI 600-1 names Value Chain + Component Integration as risk category covering agentic / tool-use deployments
- BR-AIBILL-2024: Risk-based framework (PL 2338 Arts. 13-15) covers agent systems under high-risk tiers if applicable
- ANTHROPIC-RSP-2024: RSP v2 — ASL thresholds include 'autonomous AI replication' + agentic capability evaluations
- OPENAI-PREPAREDNESS-2023: Preparedness Framework — Model Autonomy is one of four named risk categories
- DEEPMIND-FSF-2024: FSF Critical Capability Levels — Autonomy is one of four named CCL domains
- META-FRONTIER-2024: Capability tiers cover agentic behaviour; not named as a distinct category
- UK-US-AISI-MOU-2024: Joint AISI capability evaluations include agentic-behaviour testing
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14 instruments tracked.