An autonomous agent is an AI Agent capable of operating over a long horizon without human intervention, making its own decisions and acting on them. The category was popularised in 2023 by the AutoGPT viral moment: a model that sets its own subgoals, interacts with tools, performs Self-Critique and restarts its loop. In practice, full autonomy remains a hard ideal — models are still brittle over long chains, prone to Hallucination, goal drift and infinite loops. Agentic Workflow, Guardrail and Evaluation Loop practices exist precisely to address this reliability problem.
MEVZU N°124ISTANBULYEAR I — VOL. III
Glossary · Intermediate · 2023
Autonomous Agent
An agent capable of operating over long horizons without human intervention, making and acting on its own decisions.
- EN — English term
- Autonomous Agent
- TR — Turkish term
- Otonom Ajan