Atlassian cofounder: AI agents need name tags—and a human accountable for their actions
Resident-Fall4351 · reddit · 2026-10-20
Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brookes told Fortune he doesn't want "the AI did it" becoming an office excuse: "That's Mike using ChatGPT, not ChatGPT doing it. The accountability is with the end user, ultimately."
On Oct. 6, Atlassian rolled out its "Agentic Multiplayer Protocol," a control plane spanning its platforms that turns AI agents into visible, governed team members with distinct profiles and owner attribution. In practice, an agent's edits show up in document history just like a colleague's—"you have to be able to see who did what when." As he put it, a log saying Codex made an edit is wrong: "No, it didn't—someone did that."
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