From Workflow Automation to Capability Closure: A Formal Framework for Safe and Revenue-Aware Customer Service AI
arXiv cs.AI / 3/18/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces a formal framework to ensure safety in networks of specialized AI agents for customer service, addressing safety gaps when agents are composed to perform complex tasks.
- It argues that moving from single-agent chatbots to multi-agent workflows spanning billing, service provision, payments, and fulfilment creates new safety and coordination challenges.
- It defines the notion of capability closure and shows how two individually safe agents can, through emergent conjunctive dependencies, achieve a forbidden goal.
- It emphasizes aligning safety with revenue considerations to enable safe, revenue-aware customer service AI deployments.
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