Unverified Autonomy Is Institutional Liability

SURFACE / SKENAI2026-07-303 min read

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Slide 3 — Unverified autonomy liability

Three failure modes

When autonomy is unverified, institutions inherit liability they cannot allocate:

Identity void — Who deployed this agent?
Scope ambiguity — What is it allowed to touch?
Liability black box — Who owns the outcome?

Legacy infrastructure often cannot distinguish an authorized autonomous agent from a rogue script. That is the closed-loop problem: observability stays inside the same platform that executed the action.

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