Autonomy
nounid
4753·updated May 18, 2026verified
A system’s level of independence from human involvement and ability to operate without human intervention. [Different AI systems have different levels of autonomy.] An autonomous system has a set of learning, adaptive and analytical capabilities to respond to situations that were not pre-programmed or anticipated (i.e., decision-based responses) prior to system deployment. Autonomous or semi-autonomous AI systems can be characterised as "human-in-the-loop", "human-on-the-loop", or "human-out-of-the loop" systems depending on their level of meaningful involvement of human beings.
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Capability72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- libertyself-direction
- plural
- Autonomies
- possessive
- Autonomy's
- pluralpossessive
- Autonomies'
Framework definitions
EU-U.S. Terminology and Taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence - Second Edition1 senseview framework →
- §1
- A system’s level of independence from human involvement and ability to operate without human intervention. [Different AI systems have different levels of autonomy.] An autonomous system has a set of learning, adaptive and analytical capabilities to respond to situations that were not pre-programmed or anticipated (i.e., decision-based responses) prior to system deployment. Autonomous or semi-autonomous AI systems can be characterised as "human-in-the-loop", "human-on-the-loop", or "human-out-of-the loop" systems depending on their level of meaningful involvement of human beings.
- §1
- immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
- §2
- personal independence
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