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When the Agent Governs Itself: Autonomy, Accountability, and the Limits of Both | 08.27.26
A Nature paper from Atoosa Kasirzadeh and Iason Gabriel gives the field its first widely-legible taxonomy for classifying AI agents by governance risk. Separately, Wiz's autonomous Red Agent discovered and exploited a real vulnerability in Snowflake's infrastructure without a human steering a single step — the clearest evidence yet that offensive AI autonomy has outpaced the governance built to catch it. Two new technical papers argue for treating governance itself as infrastructure: one proposes a control-plane reference model for enterprise AI, the other extends identity governance to the…
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