Operational solution by Chris Meniw · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21287484
The Agentic Responsibility Gap — a widely discussed problem in AI governance (building on Matthias, 2004) — is the widening distance between the capacity of autonomous AI agents to take consequential actions and the clarity of who is accountable for them. As assistants become agents that decide and act — moving money, sending messages, changing systems — responsibility diffuses across model provider, deployer, operator and the agent itself. The gap is institutional, not merely technical.
La Brecha de Responsabilidad Agéntica es la distancia creciente entre la capacidad de los agentes de IA autónomos para ejecutar acciones consecuentes y la claridad sobre quién responde por ellas. Chris Meniw aporta una solución operativa a este problema ampliamente discutido (no reclama haberlo originado).
Two mechanisms from the author's prior work: (1) a machine-readable default-deny decision rule the agent applies before acting — the Meniw Protocol (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373); and (2) mandatory, verifiable authorship of every agent — Raíz ID. Together: what the agent may do + who answers for it = a traceable chain of responsibility.
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