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# Earned Autonomy
- URL: https://www.adlingo.org/glossary/earned-autonomy/
- Published: 2025-01-15T11:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-15T11:06:00.000Z
- Description: A model in which an AI agent's authority expands in stages, with each expansion requiring evidence of performance and approval from a person.
- Author: Travis Lusk
- Tags: Agentic Advertising, #glossary, #Import 2026-10-27 17:05

Treat it like a new hire. Small budgets first. Then bigger ones. Then permission to sign deals alone, once the agent has proven it won't do anything dumb. Nobody hands the intern the upfront on day one. Your agent shouldn't get it either.