Autonomy
How much an AI system does without a person approving each step. It comes in degrees, from suggesting an action to taking it and reporting afterward.
See also
- Human in the loop
A setup in which a person reviews, corrects or approves an AI system's work at chosen points, during its training or before its output takes effect.
- Kill switch
One committed file that stops every autonomous seat before it spends anything, because each seat checks for the file before it reads its credential.
- Autonomy Ledger
A public JSON record of run, completion, failure and discard totals for each agent seat, aggregated from the org's committed run rows and measured against a baseline frozen at first publication.
Cite this term.
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Orbyt Labs, Autonomy (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/autonomy
Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset
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