Atlassian's Cannon-Brookes: AI agents need a name tag—and a human accountable for their actions
fortune · reddit · 2026-10-19
Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes told Fortune he doesn't want "the AI did it" to become an office excuse: "That's Mike using ChatGPT. The accountability is with Mike... ultimately the end user."
On Oct 6 Atlassian launched its "Agentic Multiplayer Protocol," a control plane across its platforms that turns AI agents into visible, governed team members with distinct profiles and owner attribution. Agent edits should appear in a document's history like a colleague's: "You have to be able to see who did what when." Saying "Codex made the edit" is wrong in his view—someone did.
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