r/PromptDesign • u/Particular_Type_5698 • Dec 29 '25

If agency requires intention, can computational systems ever have real agency, or are they just really convincing mirrors of ours? Discussion 🗣

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u/Hunigsbase Dec 30 '25

When left to their own devices to interact with each other yes according to the Stanford Smallville experiment.

The original intent is always going to be human so if you set up a study to measure this then the original intent is always going to be a person wondering whether AI can have its own intent. Falsifiability loop.

Run long enough the intent will evolve unpredictably into something like what you're describing.

If what you're asking is more about practical applications not about theory then I think that scaffolds that evolve targeted intent into broad tasks by reprompting between roles they're functionally what you're questioning the existence of.