# Researchers Propose Deontic Policies to Govern Agentic AI at Runtime

As agents gain the ability to call tools, install software, and coordinate, a new paper argues for explicit permission-and-obligation rules enforced as they act.

- Published: 2026-06-19T10:56:32.172Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-06-19/researchers-propose-deontic-policies-to-govern-agentic-ai-at
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19464)

A paper on Deontic Policies for Runtime Governance of Agentic AI Systems addresses a problem that has emerged directly from the growth of AI agents. An agent driven by a large language model (LLM) that can invoke tools, manipulate data, ins…

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