arXiv:2606.04321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI deployments face a recurring design tension: heavy human oversight limits scale, while broad autonomy outruns accountability. Neither posture provides the governance infrastructure required for responsible delegation. We present the Digital Apprentice, a framework for scalable, safe AI agency in which autonomy is earned, not assumed. The Digital Apprentice is a developmental learner that internalizes the tacit methodology of a directing human, graduating through per-skill autonomy tiers only when empirical evidence justifies it. The re
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