Claim LD01-SL-C12 (v1.0)

Kasirzadeh and Gabriel characterize AI agents along four dimensions, autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity and generality, each with gradations, and draw “agentic profiles” for systems including AlphaGo, ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3.5 Sonnet with tool use and a self-driving car.

Provenance and status

Claim type: INTERPRETATION (as printed: “INTERPRETATION”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (PREPRINT) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: A measurement; the profiles are the authors’ qualitative judgments
Source (field 6, as printed): Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025
Source type (field 7): PREPRINT (as printed: “Preprint”)
Institutional position: Mixed: independent academic (Carnegie Mellon University) and AI developer (Google DeepMind)
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
Recorded date: 2026-10-16
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD01-SL-C12.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025” → SRC-SL-KASIRZADEH-GABRIEL-ARXIV-2504-21848--v1.0 — Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025; class PREPRINT (explicit public provenance pin)

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD01-SL-C12	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Kasirzadeh and Gabriel characterize AI agents along four dimensions, autonomy, efficacy, goal complexity and generality, each with gradations, and draw “agentic profiles” for systems including AlphaGo, ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3.5 Sonnet with tool use and a self-driving car.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	INTERPRETATION	base_types: INTERPRETATION
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — What each account says generative AI is, and what it predicts	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025	source_ids: SRC-SL-KASIRZADEH-GABRIEL-ARXIV-2504-21848
7	SOURCE TYPE	Preprint	classes: PREPRINT
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Mixed: independent academic (Carnegie Mellon University) and AI developer (Google DeepMind)	—
9	SCOPE	AI systems described as agents, 2025	—
10	DESIGN	Conceptual framework with qualitative profiles	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Four example systems	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	AlphaGo, ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3.5 Sonnet with tool use, Waymo	—
13	COMPARATOR	Not applicable	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Agency treated as a profile on four graded dimensions, intended for alignment and governance	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	A way to describe how agentic a system is	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	A measurement; the profiles are the authors’ qualitative judgments	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PREPRINT · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Read in arXiv version 1 (30 April 2025); no testable prediction is stated; one author works for Google DeepMind; the profiles cover systems from Google DeepMind (AlphaGo), Alphabet’s Waymo, OpenAI and Anthropic (Claude 3.5 with tool use), the developer of the model that drafted this debate	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	LD01-SL-C10	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	Not applicable / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not analysed in this claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-01, T4, D6	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Profiles scored reliably by independent raters, or by measurement	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: PREPRINT
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-16	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-01 (LIVING_DEBATE); T4 (TENSION); D6 (DOMAIN)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-01 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 1eceac94a73cf4834c870702154c4e4a8ab0394b56845eda7c4184ed35a3e18c.

Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)

SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C12 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 12 — LD01-SL-C12” SHA-256 9fae7b41b9e97f74a79cba64c4436ad1c0faba6ca932251597cf266a980bf845; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD01-SL-C12--v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C12 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-01 debate
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD01-SL-C12 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-01 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-01 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-KASIRZADEH-GABRIEL-ARXIV-2504-21848--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 12 — LD01-SL-C12 cites "Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-KASIRZADEH-GABRIEL-ARXIV-2504-21848--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Kasirzadeh & Gabriel, “Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance,” arXiv:2504.21848, 2025".