  Investigating the behavior of amorphous solids under various external loading
conditions continues to be an intriguing area of research with significant
practical implications. In this study, we demonstrate the utilization of
self-motility as a means to anneal glasses and use that as a means to fine-tune
the failure mode of the system under uniaxial tensile deformation. We begin by
highlighting the annealing effects of activity and draw parallels with other
well-known mechanical annealing processes, such as oscillatory shearing (both
uni- and multi-directional). Furthermore, we explore the annealing effects in
the presence of open boundaries, observing enhanced surface relaxations due to
activity. By implementing various activity-induced annealing protocols, we
successfully induce a transition in the failure mode from ductile to brittle.
This is demonstrated via performing tensile tests on the glass samples
resulting from the active-annealing process. The intricate effects of geometry
on the formation of shear bands are also examined. We find that samples having
an aspect ratio greater than one fail via shear band formation, owing to their
formation angle of $45\degree$ from the strain axis. In conclusion, we
introduce a novel method for producing well-annealed glasses in silico and
establish a correspondence between sheared and actively driven glasses.
