AI Agent Governance: Who Governs Autonomous AI, and How? by REIMEI KAKERU
English | September 21, 2026 | ASIN: B0HH8K92WX | 227 pages | EPUB | 8.26 Mb
AI agents are beginning to move beyond simple assistants. They can make decisions, access information, interact with systems, and collaborate with other AI agents to perform tasks autonomously.
But as AI agents become more autonomous, a fundamental question emerges:
Who governs the AI agent?
What permissions should an AI agent have?
Who is responsible for its decisions and actions?
How can organizations monitor, audit, and control autonomous AI systems?
Traditional IT governance was largely designed around the assumption that humans operate systems. The emergence of autonomous AI agents challenges that assumption.
This book explores the emerging field of AI Agent Governance, covering identity, authorization, access control, policies, auditing, accountability, security, risk management, and multi-agent environments.
Rather than treating AI agents simply as software tools, this book explores them as emerging digital actors operating within organizations and society.
The goal is not to prevent AI agents from acting autonomously.
The goal is to create the rules, permissions, controls, and trust frameworks that allow AI agents to operate safely and responsibly while remaining aligned with human objectives.
AI Agent Governance will become an essential foundation for organizations deploying increasingly autonomous AI systems.
This book provides a framework for thinking about governance in the age of autonomous AI agents.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From an Age of "Managing" AI to an Age of "Governing" It
Chapter 1: AI Agents as a New Kind of Organizational Member
Chapter 2: What Is AI Agent Governance?
Chapter 3: The Basic Principles of AI Agent Governance
Chapter 4: The Owner of an AI Agent
Chapter 5: The AI Agent Registry
Chapter 6: Classifying AI Agent Risk
Chapter 7: The Autonomy of an AI Agent
Chapter 8: AI Agent Decision Governance
Chapter 9: Governing AI Agent Privilege
Chapter 10: AI Agent Policy
Chapter 11: Multi-Agent Governance
Chapter 12: Auditing AI Agents
Chapter 13: Monitoring and Real-Time Control of AI Agents
Chapter 14: AI Agent Incident Response
Chapter 15: Governing the AI Agent Lifecycle
Chapter 16: AI Agent Governance Architecture
Chapter 17: A Corporate AI Agent Governance Model
Chapter 18: AI Agents and the Law
Chapter 19: The Age of AI Running Critical Infrastructure
Chapter 20: The AI Agent Nation-State
Chapter 21: Democracy in an AI Agent Society
Chapter 22: Governance for an AI Agent Civilization
Conclusion: Only a Civilization That Can Govern AI Will Govern the Future
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