GoKawiilIEEE Computer Society proposes 'autonomy budgets' to govern AI agent actions
An IEEE Computer Society post argues that AI agent risk stems less from dramatic failures than from quiet, incremental actions—permission changes, configuration tweaks, automations—that spread unchecked. It proposes treating agent autonomy as a controllable resource, introducing the concept of an 'autonomy budget' as a missing control surface for managing how much independent action agents can take.