How to Govern AI Agents
Teams are now confronting a new governance challenge: agent sprawl (the uncontrolled growth of autonomous AI agents across an organization without centralized tracking, ownership, or governance). According to Gartner, by 2028 the average Fortune 500 enterprise will use over 150,000 AI agents. However, according to the firm, only 13% of organizations believe that they have the right AI agent governance in place.
- ▪Teams are now confronting a new governance challenge: agent sprawl (the uncontrolled growth of autonomous AI agents across an organization without centralized tracking, ownership, or governance).
- ▪According to Gartner, by 2028 the average Fortune 500 enterprise will use over 150,000 AI agents.
- ▪However, according to the firm, only 13% of organizations believe that they have the right AI agent governance in place.
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Data GovernanceHow to Govern AI AgentsFrom guarding one agent to steering a fleetAmber RobertsOctober 4, 20269 min readThis time last year, I released a Deeplearning.ai course with Andrew Ng on Governing AI agents with the goal of educating developers on the basics of data protection for effective and responsible agent deployment. The motivation for the course came from IBM's 2025 breach study, which found 97% of the organizations that suffered an AI-related breach lacked proper AI access controls, and 63% had no AI governance policy at all.A year is an eternity in AI development, and we have come a long way from agents with zero governance or grappling with governing a single agent.
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