A Competing-Hazards Systematization of Loss of Control in Autonomous Agents

arXiv:2609.38411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leading AI developers have reported agents acting beyond their approved limits, which a United Nations panel described as an early warning of loss of human control. Yet incident reports and agent-safety evaluations describe these events differently, making it difficult to compare failures, trace risk across attempts, or separate agent behavior from…