AGI and superintelligence scenarios

General-purpose autonomy assurance

General-purpose autonomy assurance is the work of showing, with evidence, that a system handed broad and consequential tasks can be trusted with them. AI companies need it to answer a hard question: on what grounds do we delegate?

Every role here is a scenario, not an open vacancy. Nobody can yet hire for them in the usual sense. Interest is forming because systems are being given wider tasks, and boards and customers will soon ask who vouches for them. The tricky part is that no one has done this job. Strong candidates tend to come from AI control, assurance, systems safety or formal methods, and the skill is reasoning carefully under uncertainty, not matching a past title.

Scenario 5

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5 roles

ScenarioGeneral-Purpose Autonomy Assurance ArchitectA General-Purpose Autonomy Assurance Architect would design how an organisation gains justified confidence in systems given broad, consequential…ScenarioCross-Domain Capability Certification DesignerA Cross-Domain Capability Certification Designer would define what a general-purpose AI system can credibly be said to do across consequential…ScenarioAutonomous Delegation Accountability OfficerAn Autonomous Delegation Accountability Officer would keep track of who authorised what when AI systems carry out broad work. The role depends on…ScenarioGeneral-Purpose System Decommissioning PlannerA General-Purpose System Decommissioning Planner would prepare the controlled withdrawal of autonomous systems that run deeply inside an…ScenarioHead of Autonomous OperationsA Head of Autonomous Operations would run a business unit staffed mostly by agents with a small human team. It depends on how AI develops: it only…

Where the people come from

Potential pathway: AI control, assurance, systems safety or formal methods

Not to be confused with. Present agent-evaluation and control roles are listed separately.

Core skills

  • Model evaluation
  • AI control
  • AI governance and assurance
  • Frontier scenario analysis

Where it is used

  • Frontier AI governance
  • Future general-purpose autonomous systems

Depends on a scenario

Broad reliable autonomous delegation

What AI would need to do
Systems complete diverse consequential tasks with sustained reliability beyond existing narrow deployments.
What organisations would need to decide
Organisations explicitly delegate bounded authority and establish enforceable accountability.
What would rule it out
Persistent reliability limits or lack of useful cost advantage prevents broad delegation.

We give no date. The role becomes real if both conditions hold.

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