How AI Agents Are Governed Under the EU AI Act
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An analysis of how autonomous agents fall under the EU AI Act, focusing on three governance pressure points: agent identity and authentication, action logging and auditability, and containment boundaries for autonomous operation. High-risk systems must implement human oversight and maintain technical documentation before deployment.
Why It Matters for AI Harness
Regulators are independently converging on the same control surface the doctrine specifies: identity for agents, traceable action logs, enforced boundaries, and human oversight. Those map almost one-to-one onto Agent Identity & Lifecycle, Human Oversight, Audit & Traceability, and the principle that Governance Must Span Systems. The AI Harness Framework gives compliance teams an implementation path to these obligations rather than a checklist after the fact.
Maps to the doctrine
This story illustrates the following principles of the independent AI Harness Doctrine:
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