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Provable by Design: The Week Agent Accountability Became an Engineering Problem | 08.07.26
A new legal and technical analysis concludes that most high-risk agentic systems can't currently satisfy the EU AI Act's requirements at all, because their behavior can't be traced back to a verifiable inventory of actions, data flows, and affected people. Three independent research efforts respond to versions of the same problem this week — biometric binding of human authority to agent tokens, compositional authorization that treats delegation as a contract rather than a bearer token, and a deontic policy engine that gives agents an actual sense of obligation. Insurers aren't waiting for any…
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