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Beyond Human-Designed Objectives: Autonomous Goal Generation in AI Through Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Directed Agency

2026-07-14

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Current artificial intelligence systems remain fundamentally constrained by their dependence on human-designed objectives and reward functions, limiting their capacity for genuine autonomy and open-ended development. This paper proposes Autonomous Goal Generation Networks (AGGNs), a theoretical framework for architectures that synthesize, evaluate, and pursue their own objectives through intrinsic motivation. The...

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Literature Corpus work: de581e6e-a739-5957-b3a3-bbf52ccfe14e
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0905.v1

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