Category: Identity in Agents
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Why Memory Is Not Identity
“Memory has been solved. What more do you need?” Memory is a retrieval system. Identity is narrative continuity — a persistent world model that makes the agent the same evolving entity across time. They’re different architectural primitives. Here’s the engineering test that distinguishes them …
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Identity-Native Agents: Why Accountability Doesn’t Require Transparent Reasoning
Humans often act first and explain later. We still hold people accountable because a person—an identity—ultimately “signs” the action, even when their conscious story is an imperfect map of the underlying causes. LLM-based systems can be held to the same standard if we design them as Identity‑Native Agents: agents with persistent identity, explicit policies, and…
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