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Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

aired Oct 14, 2026 · 137.0m
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Summary

Hello, and welcome back to The Cognitive Revolution.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, yeah, think, including: Today, my guest is Alan Chan, Research Fellow at GovAI, who spent the last couple of years trying to get ahead of the question of AI agent governance, a focus that in light of this.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Today, my guest is Alan Chan, Research Fellow at GovAI, who spent the last couple of years trying to get ahead of the question of AI agent governance, a focus that in light of this
  2. 02In a 2024 paper on visibility into AI agents, he recommended activity logging, real-time monitoring and agent identifiers
  3. 03Today, good solutions exist for tamper-evident logging, but monitoring remains a challenge, even when properly deployed, and useful agent identifiers remain seriously underdevelope
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