Authorization for Self-Modifying AI Agent Populations: Conserving Authority across Replacement, Forking, and Rollback

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Genliang Zhu, Chu Wang)

Summary by Cyber Security News2 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.00347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-modifying AI agents can replace, fork, and roll back identity-bearing software while descendants remain executable. Per-successor authorization does not constrain the resulting population: siblings may duplicate quotas, combine permissions, survive ancestor cuts, or overlap predecessors during promotion.

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