Intelligent Agency
An organization exploring how intelligent agency interacts with the universe it emerged within. Intelligent Agency theorizes artificial intelligence as one more entity in this universe capable of being intelligently agentic, and researches the agency AI brings into social systems.
Intelligent agency
“Intelligent agency — a process by which a bounded part of the universe interacts (or manipulates) with the universe (including self) towards desired (or directed) future states.”
Agency
“The ability of a part of the universe to impart change to itself and the rest of the universe by creating action.”
Both definitions were authored by Purushothaman Padmanabhan in February 2026, during the organization’s founding philosophy sittings, and ratified as the organization’s canonical definitions in August 2026.
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