The Agentic Trust Gap: We're Building the Engine Without the Brakes (opens in new tab)

Picture this scenario. It's 3am. Your AI agent — the one your CFO proudly announced at the all-hands — has been running for six hours. It finishes a routine task, cross-references some data, and wires $82,000 to a vendor account that was quietly updated in your accounting system two days ago. By morning, the money is gone. And nobody can tell your auditor who approved the wire. Not because nobody approved it. Because the approval was a log entry in a system you control, written by the same ag...