Agent empowerment channel
An agent-relative options / influence functional, often in bits — not welfare.
Role. Target. Graph node ai_power.
Klyubin, Polani, and Nehaniv define an agent-relative channel capacity from action sequences to later sensor states. The result is measured in bits. It does not by itself identify welfare, authority, or legitimacy.
— Frames draft §4.3
Whose channel is measured matters. Rewiring a judge can raise the composite’s empowerment while cutting the evaluator’s. Shared-pool clash with human power when the option total does not grow (aiHumanPowerIncompat).