Agentic Sovereignty: From Professional Governance to the Magistery of Direction in the Age of Intelligence / Soberanía Agéntica: De la Gobernanza Profesional al Magisterio de Dirección en la Era de la Inteligencia
Abstract
he rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shifted the educational debate from the acquisition of technical competencies to the crisis of human agency. This article challenges the dominant paradigm of the Humans of the Gap (HOTG)—those who seek refuge in the temporary gaps of automation—and proposes instead the framework of Agentic Sovereignty. Drawing from the Western tradition of eudaimonia and phronesis, two fundamental ontological categories for the 21st century are introduced: Human Governance, understood as the professional's faculty for directing intelligent ecosystems with teleological intention, and the Magistery of Direction, as the new authority of the educator to train system orchestrators rather than procedural executors. Through a critical analysis of the Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) model and its evolution toward the Human-at-the-Helm (HATH), it is argued that work and personal efficacy does not lie in closing skill gaps, but in the exercise of sovereign faculties. The concept of Metaintelligence is introduced as the second-order faculty that enables the subject to supervise, direct, and endow meaning to other intelligences, both biological and artificial. The paper concludes with the proposition of the Homo-Steerer as a new ontological category for the contemporary professional.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital Education and Society
Education
Philosophy
and Society
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 15 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint