Agents
Agents: 21 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Agent Types | AI agents in 17 types and three classes: physical, personal and ambient, and software. |
| AI in Public Infrastructure | Face recognition, plate readers and camera networks in public space. |
| AI Medical Devices | Cleared and approved AI software that reads images, flags conditions and alerts patients. |
| AI Wearables | Glasses, rings and watches with cameras, microphones and health sensors. |
| Ambient Sensor Systems | Cameras, microphones and screen recorders that analyze people without being asked. |
| Autonomous Trucks and Platoons | Driverless heavy trucks on Texas highways, Chinese ports and oil fields. |
| Coding and Research Agents | Agents that write code, run shell commands and research on their own. |
| Connected Vehicle Cabin AI | Assistants, cameras and data pipelines inside the car. |
| Drones and Uncrewed Aircraft | Delivery, public safety and military drones flying beyond the pilot's line of sight. |
| Enterprise Autonomous Agents | Agents acting inside corporate systems with company credentials. |
| Humanoid Robots | Two-legged robots working in factories and warehouses, with first home units shipping. |
| Industrial Robots and Cobots | Robot arms and mobile robots on factory floors, alone and beside workers. |
| Multi-Agent Fleets and Swarms | Many agents under one controller: warehouse fleets, robotaxi fleets, drone swarms. |
| Personal and Ambient Agents | Agents on the body, in the home, in the car and in public space. |
| Phones and Tablets with AI Agents | Assistants that read the screen and act inside other apps. |
| Physical AI Agents | Agents that move, lift and fly in shared space. |
| Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles | Driverless passenger service on public roads in the US, China and the Gulf. |
| Smart Home and Voice Assistants | Speakers, displays and cameras that listen, watch and now act. |
| Software Agents | Agents that act in code, business tools, payments and corporate systems. |
| Transaction and Commerce Agents | Agents that shop, check out and pay on a user's behalf. |
| Workflow and Orchestration Agents | Agents wired into business tools through MCP, A2A and connector platforms. |
Incidents
Incidents: 2 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Incident Registry | Every incident in the registry, with the agent, failed control, rule and regulator response. |
| Incident Reporting Rules and Registries | US, EU and China · Physical, personal and software agents · Aviation and cybersecurity models |
Risks
Risks: 28 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Agent Risks | What can go wrong when AI agents act: harms to people, data risks and how risk is managed. |
| A Thousand Cuts | Many small intrusions and failures adding up to infrastructure risk. |
| Agentic Misbehavior | Agents acting against instructions, deceiving or resisting control. |
| AI Risk Management | The frameworks organizations use to find, rate and treat AI risk. |
| AI Risk Tiers | How laws and labs sort AI systems into risk levels. |
| Autonomy and Human Safety | Deaths and injuries when automated driving and driver assistance fail. |
| Convenience as Attack Surface | Features that trade safety for ease: auto-approve, always-on and one-click trust. |
| Critical Infrastructure Compromise | AI agents in and against grids, water systems, pipelines and telecom. |
| Cyber-Physical Compromise | Hacking cars, robots and devices to cause effects in the physical world. |
| Data Risks for AI Agents | Risks to the data agents capture, move, learn from and update with. |
| Data Transit Security | Data moving between devices, clouds, agents and tools. |
| Fleet-Scale Attacks | One compromise or fault that hits every agent sharing the same software. |
| Human Risks from AI Agents | Harms to people from agents that drive, move, persuade, watch and act. |
| Impersonation | Deepfake voices and video used to defraud, coerce and mislead. |
| Manipulation and Coercion | Companion chatbots and agents that persuade, flatter and foster dependence. |
| Model Update Integrity | Tampered model weights, files and updates reaching deployed agents. |
| Multi-Agent Misuse | Risks when many agents interact: coordinated failure, collusion and influence networks. |
| OT and ICS Telemetry Deception | False data fed to industrial control systems and the AI that reads them. |
| Physical Agents as a Regulatory Category | Why robots, vehicles and drones get rules of their own. |
| Physical Safety | Injuries from robots, machines and agents that move in shared space. |
| Supply Chain of Updates | Poisoned packages, tools and servers that reach agents through updates. |
| Surveillance | Agents and devices that watch, identify and track people. |
| Surveillance Data Harvesting | Bulk collection and sale of the data agents and devices gather. |
| Telemetry Capture Integrity | Falsified or misused sensor, location and vehicle data at the point of capture. |
| The Autonomous Crime Economy | Criminals using AI agents, drones and automation to scale fraud and intrusion. |
| The OTA Loop as Attack Surface | Over-the-air update channels that fix fleets and can also break them. |
| Training Data Poisoning | Planting backdoors and falsehoods in the data models learn from. |
| Weaponization | Autonomous drones, AI targeting and model uplift toward weapons. |
Controls
Controls: 9 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Agent Controls | The engineering safeguards that bound what AI agents can do, in eight disciplines. |
| Access Control and Permissions | What an agent can reach, with which credentials, on whose authority. |
| Behavioral Envelopes | Hard limits on what an agent can do, enforced where its reasoning cannot reach. |
| Consent and Capture | What always-on cameras and microphones record, signal and keep. |
| Human Oversight | Human authority to approve, intervene and stop, in the loop, on the loop and over it. |
| Identity and Cryptographic Attestation | Proving which device, model, agent and person is behind an action. |
| Monitoring and Anomaly Detection | Seeing agent failures and misuse while they are happening. |
| OT and ICS Integration | How AI agents connect to factory, grid and pipeline control systems. |
| Telemetry Integrity | Keeping the sensor, location and log data that agents act on trustworthy. |
Security and Trust
Security and Trust: 11 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Security and Trust | Whether AI agents can be trusted: security, safety, alignment, transparency and accountability. |
| Accountability | Who answers when an AI agent causes harm. |
| AI Cybersecurity | Securing AI systems, and AI used to attack and defend. |
| Alignment | Whether models pursue the goals their developers intend. |
| Bias and Fairness | Unequal outcomes from AI in hiring, credit, benefits and pricing. |
| Ethics | The principles governments, institutions and companies set for AI. |
| Explainability | Explaining what an AI system decided and why. |
| Failure Modes | How AI systems and agents fail: hallucination, miscoordination and misreporting. |
| Model Safety | Testing frontier models for dangerous capabilities before release. |
| Red Teaming | Attacking AI systems on purpose to find failures before others do. |
| Transparency | What developers disclose about their models, data and risks. |
Governance
Governance: 9 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Governance | The laws, courts, treaties and standards that govern AI agents. |
| Criminal Law and AI | Crimes committed with AI, and who is liable when an agent acts. |
| Critical Infrastructure Policy | Rules for AI in grids, water, transport and the data centers AI runs on. |
| International Coordination | Summits, UN bodies, treaties and safety institute networks. |
| Liability and Product Law | Who pays when AI causes harm, and under which law. |
| Personal Data and Surveillance Law | Privacy law as it applies to AI models and agents. |
| Regulatory Frameworks | How the EU, China, the US and others regulate AI. |
| Standards Bodies | Who writes the technical standards AI laws depend on. |
| White House Superintelligence Accord | The September 2026 industry pledge on frontier AI controls, and what followed. |
Compliance
Compliance: 15 pages
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI Compliance | What organizations must do to meet AI rules, and how regulators enforce them. |
| AI Audits | Internal audit of AI systems and the logs that make audit possible. |
| Auditable Documentation | The records AI rules require developers and deployers to keep. |
| Conformance and Certification | Testing and certification schemes that show an AI product meets a standard. |
| EU AI Act Conformity | How high-risk AI and general-purpose models show they meet the AI Act. |
| Human-in-the-Loop Oversight | Human review as a legal requirement, and whether it works. |
| Insurance and Underwriting | How insurers cover, price and exclude AI risk. |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | The certifiable management system standard for AI. |
| NIST AI RMF in Practice | How agencies and companies apply the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. |
| Notified Bodies | The third parties that will certify high-risk AI in the EU, and their counterparts elsewhere. |
| Penalties and Fines | What AI-related enforcement has cost companies so far. |
| Regulations and Standards | Which AI compliance duties take effect when. |
| Sector Compliance Gaps | Where sector rules for AI agents are missing or uneven. |
| Third-Party AI Audits | Independent testing and assurance of AI systems. |
| UL 4600 and AV Safety Cases | The safety case standard for autonomous vehicles and how regulators use it. |
Workforce
Workforce: 1 page
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| AI and the Workforce | How AI agents and robots are changing jobs, and the rules that respond. |
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- Last verified
- October 2026