The Biggest Risk of Embodied AI is Governance Lag

arXiv:2604.21938 · cs.CY, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-04-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-04-07

Updated: 2026-09-09

Journal ref: IEEE Computer Magazine, 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Embodied AI — 51× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AI Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Human Resilience in the AI Era -- What Machines Can't Replace
• PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
• A Generalist Agent

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