Agentic AI adoption outpaces governance in regulated industries
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When agentic AI is accelerating audits faster than governance can catch up, you’re effectively auto-piloting regulated workflows without a flight recorder. Regulated teams should freeze further agent expansion until they have logging, approval thresholds, and rollback paths as first-class design elements, not afterthoughts.
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