{
  "id": 6369510,
  "title": "Causal Attribution for Agentic Decisions: Estimators, Coupling, and a Traceability Specification",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/causal-attribution-for-agentic-decisions-estimators-coupling-and-a",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-06T07:36:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06445v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A provider of a high-risk AI system must keep records that make a decision traceable, and for agentic systems it has not been established what those records must contain for post-hoc causal attribution to be possible. We give the estimator framework and then the conditions under which it fails. We separate the marginal total effect that prior work measures from a common-random-numbers total…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}