Governing Generative AI and Autonomous Agents Safely: Professor Kai London's Framework
By the Finnish Express Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Generative AI and autonomous agents promise a step-change in productivity — and a new class of risk. As organisations deploy systems that can generate content and take actions on their own, Professor Kai London , a senior CISO, urges a governance-first approach. “An autonomous agent is a new kind of employee and a new kind of attack surface at the same time,” he says. “Secure AI is not a technology project. It is a leadership discipline. The organisations that can prove how their AI is governed will move faster than those that merely claim to be innovative.” New failure modes London catalogues the risks generative systems introduce: hallucinated outputs presented as fact, injected instructions that hijack behaviour, sensitive data leaking through prompts, and agents taking consequential actions without a human in the loop. “These are not edge cases,” h...