Governance by Design: A Parsonian Institutional Architecture for Internet-Wide Agent Societies

arXiv:2604.11337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The dominant paradigm of local multi-agent systems -- orchestrated, enterprise-bounded pipelines -- is being superseded by internet-wide agent societies in which autonomous agents discover each other through open registries, interact without central orchestrators, and generate emergent social behaviors. We argue that governing such societies requires institutional design, not merely risk enumeration or process compliance. Applying Talcott Parsons