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Accountability Gets Concrete: Named Agents, Sector Rules, and the Physical Governance Gap | 09.14.26
Congress introduced the first federal bill that would require AI agents to carry machine-readable identity, continuous verification, and tamper-proof audit logs tied to a named developer or vendor. The G20 endorsed a new governance framework — the "Carolina Principles" — that bets on sector-specific regulation over a single centralized AI authority, formalizing a distributed-governance model rather than the EU's consolidated approach. Meanwhile, physical AI's governance gap is becoming a scale problem as industrial robot installations head past 700,000 units by 2028, and enterprise vendors…
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