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| Comments: | 10 pages. Foundational paper of a multi-paper program on actuarial runtime for autonomous AI agents; previously posted on SSRN (id 6761960). Empirical companion: arXiv:2605.25632. Proof companions included as ancillary files |
| Subjects: | Risk Management (q-fin.RM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| MSC classes: | 91B30, 91G70, 62P05 |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.26508 [q-fin.RM] |
| (or arXiv:2605.26508v1 [q-fin.RM] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.26508 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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