From chatbots to autonomous agents: safety is the infrastructure for scaling AI
shashib · x · 2026-09-21
A commentary on how autonomous AI agents change organizational digital trust and risk management.
- Risk model shift: chatbots generate text, but agents call APIs, access tools, and execute workflows independently — governance must regulate what agents do, not just what they output.
- Proactive boundaries: voluntary guidelines leave enterprise gaps; effective governance sets ex-ante limits on autonomous actions.
- Least privilege: citing Singapore's emerging models, agents should run with role-based permissions and human-in-the-loop checkpoints instead of open admin access.
The piece quotes Mumbai AI/privacy lawyer Dr Prashant Mali: India may not build frontier models, but "can certainly become the victim of one" — next-gen regulation must govern autonomous capability.
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