arXiv:2603.15639cs.AI2026-03

用鲁棒性评估结果决定AI的经济权限,让安全成为竞争优势。

The Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy: A Robustness-First Architecture for AI Economic Agency

  • 根据对抗鲁棒性审计结果,动态控制AI的经济权限等级。
  • 实测证明系统风险可控,且提升鲁棒性比单纯扩容更赚钱。
  • 适合关注AI安全治理与可信经济系统的研究人员或企业。

AI代理正被赋予更多经济自主权(如执行交易、管理预算、谈判合约、生成子代理),但现有框架以能力基准作为权限门槛,而这些指标与实际运行鲁棒性无显著关联。本文提出一种名为「理解力约束的代理经济体系」(Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy, CGAE)的正式架构,其核心是将代理的经济权限上限由经验证的「理解力函数」决定,该函数源自对抗鲁棒性审计。审核覆盖三个独立维度:约束合规性(CDCT)、认知完整性(DDFT)与行为对齐度(AGT),并以内在幻觉率作为跨维度诊断工具。定义最弱环节门控函数,将鲁棒性向量映射为离散经济层级,并证明系统具备三项性质:(1) 经济暴露有界,最大财务责任由验证过的鲁棒性决定;(2) 激励相容性,理性代理通过提升鲁棒性而非单纯扩大能力来最大化利润;(3) 单调安全性增长,系统整体安全性随经济规模扩张不下降。架构引入时间衰减与随机重审机制,防止认证后性能漂移。CGAE首次实现从实证鲁棒性评估到经济治理的正式连接,使安全从监管负担转变为竞争优势。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI agents are increasingly granted economic agency (executing trades, managing budgets, negotiating contracts, and spawning sub-agents), yet current frameworks gate this agency on capability benchmarks that are empirically uncorrelated with operational robustness. We introduce the Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy (CGAE), a formal architecture in which an agent's economic permissions are upper-bounded by a verified comprehension function derived from adversarial robustness audits. The gating mechanism operates over three orthogonal robustness dimensions: constraint compliance (measured by CDCT), epistemic integrity (measured by DDFT), and behavioral alignment (measured by AGT), with intrinsic hallucination rates serving as a cross-cutting diagnostic. We define a weakest-link gate function that maps robustness vectors to discrete economic tiers, and prove three properties of the resulting system: (1) bounded economic exposure, ensuring maximum financial liability is a function of verified robustness; (2) incentive-compatible robustness investment, showing rational agents maximize profit by improving robustness rather than scaling capability alone; and (3) monotonic safety scaling, demonstrating that aggregate system safety does not decrease as the economy grows. The architecture includes temporal decay and stochastic re-auditing mechanisms that prevent post-certification drift. CGAE provides the first formal bridge between empirical AI robustness evaluation and economic governance, transforming safety from a regulatory burden into a competitive advantage.

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