Issue Scenario: each autonomous agent is given a quantified risk budget like a trading limit

Summary

One of NTT DATA's future scenarios for autonomy imagines agents operating under explicit human-set risk budgets. In this scenario, enterprises give every autonomous agent a defined allowance for how much uncertainty it may act under. The mechanism is compared to the risk limits used to control exposure in finance. The report treats this as a plausible way to keep scaled autonomy within human-defined bounds. It also lists the main uncertainties, namely whether regulators will make autonomy thresholds mandatory and whether uncertainty can be measured and audited well enough to run such a system. The scenario therefore depends as much on measurement science and regulation as on the agents themselves.