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Agentic AI

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Interface-Level Interoperability: Human–Agent Co-Presence and Civic Affordances

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+ While interoperability discussions traditionally emphasize protocols, APIs, and data schemas, an essential layer of agent interaction remains underexplored: the interface layer, where humans and agents co-exist and collaborate in shared environments. As autonomous agents grow more persistent, proactive, and socially embedded, the Web must evolve to support not just agent-to-agent communication but human–agent co-presence. +

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+ This reframes interoperability not merely as technical compatibility but as civic legibility and mutual accountability in human–agent ecosystems. +

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+ A forthcoming chapter in the Encyclopedia of Modern Artificial Intelligence (“Community-Governed AI Containment Above the Webpage”) introduces the notion of Safe Human-AI Co-existence, a developmental containment model grounded in three interlocking pillars: +

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  1. Secure Computation (technical trust), enabling agents to communicate and compute cooperatively across trust boundaries with cryptographic guarantees.
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  3. Ubiquitous Presence (co-location across interfaces), allowing agents to maintain shared context and continuity in multi-agent, human-facing environments. This persistent presence, combined with relative addressing, also enables agents to discover one another based on shared interface context.
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  5. Decentralized Control (community governance, consent stacks, and public overlays), supporting transparency and alignment across agent–human and agent–agent interactions alike.
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+ To support agent interoperability in a world where humans remain co-present and empowered, interface-level standards must be established alongside data and execution standards. These include civic protocols, interruptibility APIs, and consent layer primitives—making the interface itself a site of interoperability. +

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“Interoperability is not only how agents speak to each other—but how humans remain present in the conversation.”

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Architectural Considerations