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Samuel Presgraves

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Preprint Jul 2026

The Autonomous Agency Scale: A Behavioral Framework for Measuring Self-Directed Behavior in AI Systems

The Autonomous Agency Scale (AAS) is introduced, a behavioral framework that scores AI systems on a 0-5 lexicon across seven dimensions of agency: cognitive autonomy, temporal persistence, environmental agency, social agency, creative agency, self-awareness, and goal formation, each operationalized by falsifiable threshold tests.

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