True agency requires causal understanding. Not just knowing what happened, but why it happened and what could happen next. This is what separates genuine AI agents from workflows with chatbot interfaces. I’ve written before about Arthur Kordon’s axioms for industrial AI, which Michael Carroll highlighted in his work on “agent-washing”: Can it learn and evolve?

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