From Language Models to World-Acting Systems: Progress and Limits of Agentic AI across Digital, Social, Virtual, and Physical Environments

arXiv:2609.04894 · cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-09-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-09-04

Updated: 2026-09-04

Comments: Review article. 29 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Literature cutoff: 31 August 2026

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

Terminology

• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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