Who is watching the AI agents?

The useful part

They write code, analyze documents, respond to customers, coordinate workflows, and make decisions across multiple business systems with very little human involvement. With Gartner predicting that the average Fortune 500 company will run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, enterprises need to lay a strong foundation now to ensure proper governance of the technology. THE OLD MODEL DOESN'T SCALE Historically, governance has been built around human systems.

How it works

• Security, compliance, privacy, and risk teams reviewed new systems before they went live, identified concerns, and worked with the business to resolve them.
• That model worked because software changed slowly and deployment cycles stretched over months.
• For better or worse, AI agents are now a part of the workforce.
• Research repeatedly shows that enterprises can't keep up.
• An agent can make thousands of decisions before a traditional review process even begins.

What to take from it

IBM found that 70% of technology executives say AI is being deployed faster than IT can track it.

Details worth keeping

Now, enterprises must prepare for a world where they do far more of it.