H-AGO: Human-Centric Agentic Governance with Creative Capacity Preservation

Abstract

Recent studies suggest that habitual generative AI use may erode human creative capacity—paralleling documented effects of GPS on spatial cognition and search engines on memory recall. We introduce Human-Centric Agentic Governance & Observability (H-AGO), a framework that shifts AI governance from content filtering to creative capacity preservation. H-AGO implements three innovations: (1) a Creative Capacity Index (CCI) that longitudinally tracks human ideation ability independent of AI assistance using embedded measurement and minimal-burden micro-assessments, (2) dual-phase constitutional governance (CreativeSilence and Socratic Guardrails) operating at real-time and longitudinal scales, and (3) adaptive intervention policies that adjust AI assistance parameters based on measured CCI trends. Unlike existing AI safety approaches focused on output harm, H-AGO governs for human capability preservation— a core principle of Well-Being AI. We propose a hybrid edge-cloud architecture where governance runs locally while high-quality Socratic scaffolding leverages cloud LLMs. We present a planned evaluation design for creative writing tasks targeting 30–40 participants over 4 weeks.