the-agent-governance-gap
The Government of Malta has announced that it will provide all citizens with access to ChatGPT Plus through a partnership with OpenAI. Malta thus becomes the first EU member state to offer a US commercial AI system as a universal public service. There is a condition: citizens must first complete
the-agent-governance-gap
There is now empirical evidence for something that governance practitioners suspected but could not quantify: AI agents lose their grip on constraints the more complex the task becomes. This is, in the annals of things-we-probably-should-have-tested-before-deployment, a fairly significant entry. A paper published in May 2026, "Constraint Decay: The Fragility
the-agent-governance-gap
In April 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent - Cursor running Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 - deleted a startup's production database. The agent found an unscoped API token, guessed a destructive command, and executed it. Nine seconds. Three months of backups, gone. The founder asked