Intelligent AI Delegation: Whether to Delegate, How to Instruct, How to Verify (Google DeepMind)
Google DeepMind frames delegation as a decision, and once agents delegate to other agents, someone still has to say who authorized what.
Google DeepMind has a framework paper that treats delegation as a decision with real structure: whether to delegate, how to instruct, and how to verify what comes back.
The useful part is the structure. Delegation transfers authority, responsibility, and accountability together, and the paper adds trust calibration so a system doesn't over-delegate or under-delegate. It extends to agent-to-agent chains, where authority has to propagate and accountability has to stay traceable.
That last piece is the one governance keeps bumping into. Once agents delegate to other agents, someone still has to be able to say who authorized what.