The Authority Resolution Framework: A Five-Domain Ontology for Governing Who and What Decides, at Scale

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arXiv:2608.15832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become increasingly capable of autonomous action, determining whether an agent is technically capable of performing an action is insufficient: the system must also determine whether the action is authorised in its context. This paper introduces the Authority Resolution Framework (ARF), a five-domain ontology for representing and resolving authority across organisational roles and informal influence, business concepts, codified process