Proof-Carrying Contracts: Commitments AI Agents Cannot Break
We introduce Proof-Carrying Contracts (PC2), a framework for making agreed constraints enforceable throughout an agent's interactions with a system.
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Key points
- AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people or other agents, purchasing services, exchanging information and delegating work.
- What an agent must respect is written in instructions, policies or agreements, but text alone cannot make it comply.
- For an economy of such agents to function, parties need agreements they can rely on without inspecting or trusting one another's agents.
- Before a requested operation can run, the agent must supply a machine-checkable proof that it preserves the agreed constraints in every case allowed by its model.
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- [1]Proof-Carrying Contracts: Commitments AI Agents Cannot BreakarXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 20, 04:30 PM
We introduce Proof-Carrying Contracts (PC2), a framework for making agreed constraints enforceable throughout an agent's interactions with a system.
AI agents increasingly act on behalf of people or other agents, purchasing services, exchanging information and delegating work.
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