Assured autonomy: How operations research powers and orchestrates generative AI systems

ArXi:2512.23978v2 Announce Type: replace Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is shifting from conversational assistants toward agentic systems -- autonomous decision-making systems that sense, decide, and act within operational workflows. This shift creates an autonomy paradox: as GenAI systems are granted greater operational autonomy, they should, by design, embody formal structure, explicit constraints, and stronger tail-risk discipline.