paperJune 2026Unreviewed

Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems

Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin, Karuna Pande Joshi, Lalana Kagal

Abstract

Autonomous agentic AI systems driven by Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce a new class of security, privacy, and compliance challenges: an agent that can invoke tools, manipulate data, install software, and coordinate with peer agents across organizational boundaries must be constrained not just by authentication and access control, but by the full structure of enterprise governance. This includes specifying what agents are permitted and prohibited from doing, what they areobliged to do afte

Cite

@misc{joshi2026deontic,
  title = {{Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems}},
  author = {Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin and Karuna Pande Joshi and Lalana Kagal},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  eprint = {2606.19464},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19464}
}