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Does Your AI Need a Boss? The Case for Employee-Style Controls for Agentic AI

Many large companies have spent decades developing controls to manage the risks associated with giving their employees authority and discretion.

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Many large companies have spent decades developing controls to manage the risks associated with giving their employees authority and discretion.

Those controls include defined responsibilities, technical limitations on access to confidential materials, layers of supervision, required approvals for certain actions, ongoing monitoring for higher risk...

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Many large companies have spent decades developing controls to manage the risks associated with giving their employees authority and discretion. Those controls include defined responsibilities, technical limitations on access to confidential materials, layers of supervision, required approvals for certain actions, ongoing monitoring for higher risk activities, training on firm policies, and mandatory escalation if certain [...]

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Those controls include defined responsibilities, technical limitations on access to confidential materials, layers of supervision, required approvals for certain actions, ongoing monitoring for higher risk activities, training on firm policies, and mandatory escalation if certain [...]

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