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Governance Needs Infrastructure, Not Just Intent | 09.01.26
Today's briefing traces a single thread: governing autonomous AI agents is fundamentally an infrastructure problem, not a policy-statement problem. Google Cloud's new State of AI Infrastructure findings argue that agent security has become the top gating issue for enterprise scale, and that platform-level provenance and human-in-the-loop checkpoints — not bolted-on audits — are what actually make autonomous action accountable. Center for AI Safety researchers Gillian Hadfield and Dan Hendrycks make the parallel case at internet scale: with agent traffic up more than 1,700% and agents now able…
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