AI Governance · 2026-09-16

Designing Loyalty: AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

A duty of loyalty becomes governable only when delegated authority, conflicts of interest, execution boundaries, revocation, and evidence of action can be made observable and enforceable at the point an agent acts.

AI Governance · 2026-09-08

AI Agents Push Humans Out of the Loop

arXiv

Human oversight is not a governance control merely because a person remains in the loop; it is effective only while the system preserves the attention, expertise, independence, and decision capacity required to exercise authority over it.

AI Governance · 2026-08-03

Critique of Agent Model

arXiv

The paper correctly identifies that advanced agents redistribute control by internalising goals, identity, deliberation, and learning, but it mistakes architectural visibility for governability: an inspectable module is not an accountable institution unless authority, constraint, revocation, evidence, and redress are executable around it.

Law, Regulation & Liability · 2026-07-28

Targeted Report on Regulatory Challenges from Decentralised Finance

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

FATF reframes DeFi regulation around observable control rather than claims of decentralisation, but its fallback for systems without an identifiable controller shifts enforcement toward adjacent intermediaries without defining the legitimacy, evidence standards, or redress required for that indirect control regime.

AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-07-12

‘God has helped us, and so will AI’: How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI

Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy, University of Cambridge

The report shows that the relevant unit of AI misuse is not the isolated malicious prompt but the organization that can train specialists, distribute access, compare providers, and convert model output into operational routines. Safety governance built around single-user refusals will remain structurally inadequate unless it can address coordinated adversaries without turning platform monitoring into unaccountable security infrastructure.

AI Safety & Evaluation · 2026-05-15

From Symptoms to Systems: A Stakeholder-Informed Taxonomy of Generative AI Risks for Eating Disorders

Center for Democracy & Technology AI Governance Lab

The report's central contribution is that it treats eating disorder risk as a pattern of interaction rather than a prohibited content class. Its governance gap is that the taxonomy still needs to become an auditable control framework with thresholds, evidence requirements, escalation duties, and redress pathways.

AI Governance · 2026-05-11

AI Governance at the Frontier: Unpacking Foundational Assumptions

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

The report's decisive analytical move is to treat governance proposals as bundles of assumptions rather than competing slogans. Its unresolved weakness is that assumption-mapping becomes policy-relevant only when each assumption is translated into testable institutional capacity, enforceable authority, and observable failure conditions.

AI Governance · 2026-05-09

Governing Artificial Intelligence in India: Data Sourcing, Synthetic Content, and Technological Sovereignty

Kautilya School of Public Policy Working Paper #3

The paper connects data sourcing, synthetic content, and technological sovereignty as one governance loop rather than three separate policy problems. Its central gap is that it proposes institutional remedies without fully specifying the enforcement architecture, evidence duties, revocation mechanics, and redress pathways needed to make those remedies operational.

Law, Regulation & Liability · 2026-05-04

AI Agents Under EU Law: A Compliance Architecture for AI Providers

arXiv working paper

The paper’s decisive analytical move is to relocate AI agent compliance from model classification to action inventory: what the agent can touch, change, disclose, delegate, or trigger is the real regulatory map. Its unresolved weakness is that it treats provider compliance architecture as the main control surface while leaving legitimacy, redress, and affected-party power underdeveloped.

AI Governance · 2026-04-16

AI Index Report 2026

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

The report’s most important contribution is showing that AI capability, compute, capital, and measurement power are concentrating faster than governance systems can adapt, leaving a small set of actors with growing influence over both AI’s trajectory and the terms on which it is evaluated.

AI Governance · 2026-04-14

AI Governance, Safety and Infrastructure

Global Network Initiative and Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi

The briefing’s central contribution is showing that standards, safety institutions, and infrastructure concentration are converging into one governance problem, but it stops short of specifying the enforceable control points that would actually redistribute power.