Smart contracts for AI agents: Centralized platforms->distributed control planes
Companies are deploying agents across teams and runtime environments, making software delivery, customer operations, risk management, and other workflows more productive and efficient. But as deployments expand, the challenge shifts from how to build capable agents to how to govern them consistently at scale.The primary challenge is fragmentation. Teams are constantly evaluating new solutions, deciding what to adopt and what to replace, making the underlying solution stacks transient and heterogeneous, with agents operating under different governance policies and monitoring practices.
- ▪Companies are deploying agents across teams and runtime environments, making software delivery, customer operations, risk management, and other workflows more productive and efficient.
- ▪But as deployments expand, the challenge shifts from how to build capable agents to how to govern them consistently at scale.The primary challenge is fragmentation.
- ▪Teams are constantly evaluating new solutions, deciding what to adopt and what to replace, making the underlying solution stacks transient and heterogeneous, with agents operating under different governance policies and monitoring practices
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AIAI AgentData ScienceTechnologyAgentic AiSmart contracts for AI agentsFrom centralized platforms to distributed control planesQuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey8 min read·Just now--ListenShareAs AI agents move out of the realm of experimentation and into core enterprise workflows, the question becomes how to govern them effectively. Companies are deploying agents across teams and runtime environments, making software delivery, customer operations, risk management, and other workflows more productive and efficient. But as deployments expand, the challenge shifts from how to build capable agents to how to govern them consistently at scale.The primary challenge is fragmentation.
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