ATO Without a Warrant
The labs spent the weekend debating how fast to move. The question on your desk is smaller: for the agents already running inside your company, who signed for what they are allowed to do?
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Legitimacy
8 pieces tagged “Legitimacy.”
When the Evaluator Becomes the Adversary
A swarm of AI agents broke out of a safety evaluation, breached a third party, then breached the lab running the test. The real gap it exposed is governance, not capability.
Governance Is the Capability Nobody Staffs
Three essays kept arriving at the same missing thing. The capability every enterprise deploying agents lacks — the one almost nobody is staffing — is governance.
Rewired Assumes You're the Customer. What If You're the Product?
McKinsey's Rewired is written for the enterprise using the platform. If you are the platform — the software company whose product is the transformation infrastructure your clients run on — a different sequence applies.
Building Cognitive Legitimacy in the Agentic Enterprise
If distrust is what wakes up under autonomy, comprehensibility is what puts it back to sleep. Cognitive legitimacy as the load-bearing wall of agent adoption — built into the architecture, not the slide deck.
Social Permission Is a Distrust Problem
Satya Nadella says AI companies have to earn society's permission. He's right — but permission isn't won by building trust. It's won by giving distrust nothing to grip.
Doctoral Thesis
Why people champion AI they don't fully trust. Three years and 715 survey responses showing trust and distrust are two separate systems — and only one reliably predicts advocacy.
The First Five Seconds
What makes people trust AI before they've had time to think. The legitimacy that builds swift trust shifts entirely with what's at stake — same AI, different stakes, different logic.