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Supervision Can't Be Bolted On

Most people think an autonomous system is safe as long as someone can always intervene. The Cruise robotaxi incident shows why that assumption fails - and what proactive supervision actually looks like when reactive supervision isn't enough.

21 July, 2026

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What a Real AI Supervisor Actually Requires

AI agents move in discrete steps, and the question isn't how fast you catch a problem - it's how many unsupervised steps an agent takes before anyone is in a position to catch anything. Control engineering solved this in 1987.

15 July, 2026

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Managed Autonomy, Not Autonomous AI

Companies solved the AI agent governance problem for humans decades ago - it's called Privileged Access Management. Most AI agents were never enrolled in it, and where the analogy breaks is the actually interesting part.

15 July, 2026