Ethics & Governance
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By Jen English , Shaun Sutner • Oct. 27, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert AdviceWho should claim AI leadership in the enterprise?
As AI becomes integral to business operations, the question of who's in charge will become harder to answer. Read on for guidance on where AI leadership lies.
By Kashyap Kompella • Oct. 22, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
How payroll giant ADP practices AI governance and human oversight
The governance approach focuses on key principles of transparency, explainability, risk management, privacy and security.
By Esther Shittu • Oct. 21, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
AI age checks: Is this new surveillance method friend or foe?
We can all agree that implementing security measures to protect children online is a good thing. But AI age checks could become a new way for organizations to surveil everyone.
By Nihad Hassan • Oct. 19, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice
Secure your agentic AI with identity management
AI agents are an invisible workforce that ushers in a new generation of vulnerabilities and threats. Enforce strict identity management to secure these agents.
By Donald Farmer • Oct. 13, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
DeepSeek and what enterprises should learn from AI agent exploits
A new case of an out-of-control AI model shows that enterprises should treat models and agents as toddlers that need supervision and explicit instructions.
By Esther Shittu • Oct. 13, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice // AI overreliance and its potential impact on human work and life
The risks of AI overreliance in software engineering
It's unquestionable whether generative AI provides productivity gains for software engineers. But developer overreliance on AI comes with its share of risks.
By Kashyap Kompella • Oct. 5, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Nvidia agent safety push raises questions about who governs AI autonomy
The AI chipmaker’s new safety platform adds controls around AI agents, while enterprises remain responsible for defining their authority and setting boundaries.
By Kinza Yasar • Oct. 1, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Podcast
Anthropic plugs regulation, AI leaders meet with Trump, and open models
The AI world buzzes about stopping out-of-control agents. President Trump appears to slightly modify his anti-AI regulation stance. Open source AI could lose out. Or not.
By Shaun Sutner , Esther Shittu , Kinza Yasar • Sept. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
AI is now ‘super intelligence,’ but federal oversight is still missing
President Trump calls AI by a new name and asserts the U.S. will not be slowing down AI development.
By Esther Shittu • Sept. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
AI industry copes with out-of-control agents. Here’s OpenAI’s response
The generative AI vendor delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after testing exposed new safety concerns, showing why AI models need continued evaluation and enterprise runtime controls.
By Kinza Yasar • Sept. 30, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
While agents cause trouble, calls for AI regulation mount from Anthropic, lawmakers
It seems nearly everyone is calling for regulation. Chief among them is Anthropic, whose AI agents are also key troublemakers.
By Esther Shittu • Sept. 29, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Nvidia launches AI safety platform after agent security breaches
The vendor's new system is designed to contain rogue AI agents as companies race to secure increasingly autonomous systems. But it has not been proven yet.
By Esther Shittu, Scarlett Evans • Sept. 28, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
AI apocalypse warnings: Safety concern or market strategy?
Recent AI extinction warnings from industry leaders may be less about safety and more about business strategy.
By Shelly Kramer, CEO and principal analyst at Kramer&Co • Sept. 28, 2026 -
Enterprise AI accelerates as calls for a slowdown grow
Follow TechTarget News coverage of the AI slowdown debate, current advances in AI technology and new approaches to monitoring and governing autonomous AI.
Sept. 28, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
AI extinction talk: IT leaders weigh in
Security and IT leaders say the AI extinction headlines are reshaping the conversation more than the controls.
By Sean Kerner • Sept. 24, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Video
Global, tech leaders weigh in on AI development debate
In this episode of Tech News this Week, Esther Shittu explains the AI development debate, the arguments against a slowdown in AI advancement, and how business leaders can respond.
By Kate Murray • Sept. 21, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Accelerating AI adoption and governance amid an AI slowdown
While many organizations are accelerating their use of AI, they need to focus on governance and invest in trust, security and alignment.
By Esther Shittu • Sept. 21, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
AI extinction: What IT leaders need to know -- and do -- now
AI extinction concerns are growing among experts, but for enterprises, the focus should be on governance, accountability and risk management to prevent operational failures.
By Sean Kerner • Sept. 18, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Calls for AI slowdown raise new challenges for open-weight models
Regulating frontier AI could sideline smaller open source developers and push enterprises to take on more of the safety and governance burden themselves.
By Kinza Yasar • Sept. 17, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Agility unveils Digit 5, a safety-conscious humanoid
The robot maker says its latest humanoid is designed to work alongside people, but analysts warn that industrywide safety standards remain underdeveloped.
By Scarlett Evans • Sept. 16, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Enterprises in shaky spot amid calls for an AI slowdown
Calls for an AI slowdown come as enterprise demand is building for cheaper and unregulated open source models from China.
By Esther Shittu • Sept. 14, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Expert Advice // When AI goes rogue: Recent security incidents and the need for better guardrails
Key guardrails to defend against rogue AI agents
AI agents go rogue for many reasons. Businesses must establish defense mechanisms and guardrails that counter the potential damage from an agent's rogue actions.
By Nihad Hassan • Sept. 11, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Prompt: AI governance enters its verification phase
California's new AI auditing laws point to a shift from companies making their own safety claims to proving those claims in independent review.
By Liz Hughes • Sept. 11, 2026 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
What businesses really need from an AI off switch
Turning off an AI feature doesn't necessarily stop AI processing. Businesses need meaningful controls over AI features, data access, third parties and software updates.
By Kinza Yasar • Sept. 3, 2026
