They schedule, route, approve, deny, recommend, and act across enterprise systems. Adoption is moving faster than governance: agents are entering production before organizations can reliably assign identity, trace actions, or prove who authorized what.
When a system acts autonomously,
who is responsible for what it does?
Power without accountability is not progress. An autonomous system that cannot be inspected, traced, or overridden is not a tool — it is a risk with no owner.
“The specific public benefit that the Corporation will promote is to ensure autonomous AI systems operate transparently, auditably, and under human authority for the long-term benefit of humanity.”