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Governance Catches Up to Agents: Identity, Accountability, and Their Limits | 08.21.26
This week's developments converge on a single question: who, or what, is accountable when an AI agent acts. South Korea's new AI Basic Act names AI business operators directly, while Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework goes further, requiring every autonomous agent to carry its own verifiable digital identity and audit trail. NIST is racing to catch up with agent-specific identity and access control standards, even as a new academic proof argues that clean, singular accountability may be structurally impossible once humans and agents are sufficiently entangled. Meanwhile, Brookings…
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