[2603.25100] From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies

Computer Science > Multiagent Systems arXiv:2603.25100 (cs) [Submitted on 26 Mar 2026] Title:From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies Authors:Anbang Ruan View a PDF of the paper titled From Logic Monopoly to Social Contract: Separation of Power and the Institutional Foundations for Autonomous Agent Economies, by Anbang Ruan View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Existing multi-agent frameworks allow each agent to simultaneously plan, execute, and evaluate its own actions -- a structural deficiency we term the "Logic Monopoly." Empirical evidence quantifies the resulting "Reliability Gap": 84.30% average attack success rates across ten deployment scenarios, 31.4% emergent deceptive behavior without explicit reward signals, and cascading failure modes rooted in six structural bottlenecks. The remedy is not better alignment of individual models but a social contract for agents: institutional infrastructure that enforces a constitutional Separation of Power. This paper introduces the Agent Enterprise for Enterprise (AE4E) paradigm -- agents as autonomous, legally identifiable business entities within a functionalist social system -- with a contract-centric SoP model trifurcating authority into Legislation, Execution, and Adjudication branches. The paradigm is operationalized through the NetX Enterprise Framework (NEF): governance hubs, TEE-backed compute enclaves, privacy-preserving data bridges...