Roy Zhao (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington), Zhenyu Zhao (Independent Researcher)
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Why it matters
Puts the artifacts that determine an AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition →'s future behavior under versioned human custody: self-edits arrive as validated candidate changes for review, and forking an agent creates a descendant with its own identity and private state.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
