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Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems
May 27, 2026Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan RamasubbuAgentic Workflows AI Agent Governance
School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Ejento AI, USA
From Model Scaling to System Scaling: Scaling the Harness in Agentic AI
May 25, 2026Shangding GuLLM Agent Orchestration AI Agent Benchmarks
UC Berkeley
Anticipate and Learn: Unleashing Idle-Time Compute in Proactive Agents
May 25, 2026Haoyi Hu, Qirong Lyu, Xianghan Kong +7AI Agent Evaluation AI Agent Benchmarks
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Tencent
Socially fluent AI decouples conversational signals from source identity in online interaction
May 22, 2026Lixiang Yan, Yueqiao Jin, Xibin Han +1Human-AI Interaction Conversational Agents
School of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing & 100084, China · Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne & 3800, Australia · Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Whose Good, Whose Place? The Moral Geography of Agentic AI for Social Good
May 21, 2026Poli Nemkova, Haeshitha Indukuri, Jaedon CharlesAI Accountability AI Agent Governance
University of North Texas · Florida International University
Adapting the Interface, Not the Model: Runtime Harness Adaptation for Deterministic LLM Agents
May 21, 2026Tianshi Xu, Huifeng Wen, Meng LiLLM Agents LLM Agent Harnesses
Peking University
From Automated to Autonomous: Hierarchical Agent-native Network Architecture (HANA)
May 20, 2026Binghan Wu, Shoufeng Wang, Yunxin Liu +3Multi-Agent Orchestration Wireless Communications
AsiaInfo Technologies Limited, Beijing, China · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Verimag, Universit´e Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Position: Assistive Agents Need Accessibility Alignment
May 13, 2026Jie Hu, Changyuan Yan, Yu Zheng +2AI Alignment Human-Centered AI
School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Position: Agentic AI System Is a Foreseeable Pathway to AGI
May 13, 2026Junwei Liao, Shuai Li, Muning Wen +2Multi-Agent Systems Agentic AI
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2Shanghai Innovation Institute · 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University College London.
Autonomy and Agency in Agentic AI: Architectural Tactics for Regulated Contexts
May 12, 2026Damir Safin, Dian BaltaAI Agent Governance Human Oversight of AI
fortiss GmbH, Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems, Munich, Germany
FORTIS: Benchmarking Over-Privilege in Agent Skills
May 9, 2026Shawn Li, Chenxiao Yu, Han Wang +8LLM Agent Security AI Agent Security Benchmarks
University of Southern California · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 3Adobe Research +3
Agentic AIs Are the Missing Paradigm for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Foundation Models
May 7, 2026Xin Wang, Haibo Chen, Wenxuan Liu +1OOD Generalization Agentic AI
Tsinghua University
A Versatile AI Agent for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Risk Gene Prioritization
May 7, 2026Tianyu Liu, Wangjie Zheng, Rui Yang +12Rare Disease Diagnosis Clinical Decision Support
Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University · Department of Biostatistics, Yale University · Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard +13
Agentic Coding Needs Proactivity, Not Just Autonomy
May 7, 2026Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios EvangelopoulosAI Coding Agents Coding Agents
Google Labs
Who Prices Cognitive Labor in the Age of Agents? Compute-Anchored Wages
May 7, 2026Siqi ZhuAI and Labor Agentic AI
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
AIs and Humans with Agency
May 4, 2026David MumfordHuman-in-the-Loop AI LLM Agents
Less Interaction But More Explanation: A Communication Perspective on Agentic AI Interfaces
May 2, 2026Eunchae Jang, S. Shyam SundarExplainable Artificial Intelligence Human-AI Interaction
Media Effects Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA · Center for Socially Responsible AI, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA
rAIson: Developing Reliable Decision-Making Agents
May 2, 2026Pavlos Moraitis, Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Antonis KakasAI Agent Reliability Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Argument Theory Paris, FR Université Paris Cité Paris, FR · Argument Theory Paris, FR Hellenic Mediterranean University Chania, GR · Argument Theory Paris, FR University of Cyprus Nicosia, CY
Agentic AI Systems Should Be Designed as Marginal Token Allocators
May 2, 2026Siqi ZhuLLM Agent Orchestration LLM Agent Evaluation
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Human-AI Coordination Zones: A Framework for Designing Human-in-the-Loop Experiences with Agentic AI
May 1, 2026James Pierce, Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Siddharth Gupta +1Human-in-the-Loop AI Human-AI Interaction
Amazon Web Services
Self-Evolving Software Agents
Apr 29, 2026Marco Robol, Paolo GiorginiSoftware Engineering Agents LLM Agent Self-Improvement
University of Trento · Trento, Italy
Addressing the Reality Gap: A Three-Tension Framework for Agentic AI Adoption
Apr 29, 2026Jason Fournier, Kacper ŁodzikowskiAI in Education Generative AI in Education
Imagine Learning · Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland · Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Think Before You Act -- A Neurocognitive Governance Model for Autonomous AI Agents
Apr 28, 2026Eranga Bandara, Ross Gore, Asanga Gunaratna +12Cognitive Architectures for AI Agents AI Agent Governance
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA · AI Motion Labs, Melbourne, Australia · Florida International University, FL, USA +6
Toward a Science of Intent: Closure Gaps and Delegation Envelopes for Open-World AI Agents
Apr 27, 2026Maximiliano Armesto, Christophe KolbAI Agent Evaluation AI Agent Safety
Taller Technologies
Agentic AI platforms for autonomous training and rule induction of human-human and virus-human protein-protein interactions
Apr 27, 2026Hung N. Do, Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland, Oscar A. Negrete +1Interpretable ML Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division; 2Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Group, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 87545 · Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Group, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA 87545 · Systems Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA 94550
Active Inference: A method for Phenotyping Agency in AI systems?
Apr 25, 2026Philip Wilson, Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin +4Active Inference AI Governance
Independent Researcher · Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH, UK · Laboratoire d’Analyse Cognitive de l’Information, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada +4
Post-AGI Economies: Autonomy and the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics
Apr 23, 2026Elija PerrierAgentic AI
Centre for Quantum Software & Information, UTS, Sydney
Supplement Generation Training for Enhancing Agentic Task Performance
Apr 22, 2026Young Min Cho, Daniele Bonadiman, Divya Bhargavi +8LLM Agent Training Prompt Optimization
University of Pennsylvania · AWS Agentic AI Labs · Amazon
Integrating Anomaly Detection into Agentic AI for Proactive Risk Management in Human Activity
Apr 21, 2026Farbod Zorriassatine, Ahmad LotfiFall Detection AI Risk Management
Department of Computer Science · Nottingham Trent University · Nottingham, UK
Context: Proactive Goal-Directed Intelligence via Composable Sandboxed Programs, Declarative Wiring, and Structured Interaction
Apr 21, 2026Gregory MagarshakLLM Agent Orchestration Proactive Assistance
Qbix, Inc. & Intercoin, Inc. · New York, USA · Also with IE University NYC.

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Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems

Muhammad Zia Hydari, Raja Iqbal, Narayan Ramasubbu

School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA · Ejento AI, USA

Agentic Workflows AI Agent Governance Agentic AI

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Agentic AI systems are increasingly being explored as production infrastructure: they reason over multiple steps, call tools, act through workflows, and adapt through memory and feedback. These systems create governance challenges that are not fully captured by traditional software or predictive ML technical debt. We define Agentic Technical Debt as the accumulated liability created when prompts, memory, tool schemas, orchestration graphs, control policies, and observability routines are patched together faster than they can be validated, standardized, and governed. We define Stochastic Tax as the recurring operating burden of keeping probabilistic agent behavior within acceptable bounds. The distinction matters: debt is a stock of design and governance liability, while the tax is a flow of operating cost that arises because stochastic agents act through tools and workflows. We outline how managers can make both visible through lightweight dashboards and governance controls.

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