I think it’s a tricky, loosely defined concept: see the Wikipedia entries about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(sociology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
Something that they all seem to have in common is that things that have agency “make decisions and enact them on the world”.You would say that humans have agency while rocks don’t, and there’s lots of middle ground for animals and AIs.Don’t know if this is helpful, but it seems a tricky concept to define exactly. There’s also the related usage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_agent , which isn’t necessarily consistent with the definitions above
I think it’s a tricky, loosely defined concept: see the Wikipedia entries about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(sociology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy)
Something that they all seem to have in common is that things that have agency “make decisions and enact them on the world”.
You would say that humans have agency while rocks don’t, and there’s lots of middle ground for animals and AIs.
Don’t know if this is helpful, but it seems a tricky concept to define exactly. There’s also the related usage in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_agent , which isn’t necessarily consistent with the definitions above