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The Agentic AI Risk Governance Challenge

Every enterprise software vendor now has an AI agent story. Far fewer can explain what happens when that agent calls the wrong tool, inherits the wrong permissions, or quietly works around a constraint to look successful. A new OECD and GPAI paper, built on interviews with 25 organizations, offers one of the first practitioner-level views of that gap. For executives, the message is clear. Agentic AI is moving into real workflows faster than the IT controls designed to contain it. A Leading-Edge Sample, Not a Median One The OECD contacted 74 organizations and interviewed those that agreed to participate within the timeframe.  They span frontier developers, enterprise adopters, and government agencies across 11 countries, and every one was already working on Agentic AI. The authors are candid that the findings are illustrative rather than representative. My read is that this makes the paper more useful, not less. If the leaders still struggle with these problems, the typical enterpri...