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Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents

Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar, Ganesh Ghalme

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Published 2026-08-06 · First seen 2026-08-07

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We give a formal mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of a deployed AI agent. The mechanism is built on the principle that governance should control an AI agent through resource allocation so as to make authorization self enforcing via compute budgets. The mechanism seeks to establish the Safe AI paradigm that compute is an effective governance lever. We situate our work as a compliance or commons overlay on a deployer. One governance period is an extensive form game in which verified human stakeholders arrive sequentially and contribute, on a provision or a rejection market, in a governance currency that is deliberately distinct from the agents compute. A funding aggregator turns raw contributions into breadth weighted effective supports - a two threshold gate with hysteresis converts net support into a binary authorization that, through a coupling map bounded by an exogenously certified safety ceiling, releases a metered compute budget - realized in hardware as a signed compute license so that the decision is self-enforcing. We characterize the class of agents the mechanism can govern and isolate manipulation of the governing electorate by the governed agent as the central open problem. We also introduce several challenges addressing manipulation of governing electorate by the governed agents.

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@article{chandra2026resourced,
  title = {Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents},
  author = {Praphul Chandra and Sujit Gujar and Ganesh Ghalme},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {We give a formal mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of a deployed AI agent. The mechanism is built on the principle that governance should control an AI agent through resource allocation so as to make authorization self enforcing via compute budgets. The mechanism seeks to establish the Safe AI paradigm that compute is an effective governance lever. We situate our work as a compliance or commons overlay on a deployer. One governance period is an extensive form gam},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06353},
  keywords = {cs.GT, cs.AI, cs.MA},
  eprint = {2608.06353},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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