Autonomous governance
The set of controls under which a system may take consequential action without prior human authorisation for each act — covering the authority grant, its bounds, the oversight interval, and the conditions of revocation.
The position
The phrase is usually read as 'governance performed by autonomous systems.' It should be read as 'governance of the autonomous condition' — the state of having already delegated. Existing regulation governs models, disclosures and conflicts; almost none of it squarely governs an autonomous agent taking an action with capital. That gap will be filled by whoever writes into it first, and the institutions currently deploying agents are not waiting for the writing.
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