Dr. Trey Harper
A practitioner-academic on Agentic AI adoption, trust, and the governance work the field is not yet doing. I write and speak on what it takes to let autonomous systems act — and be trusted when they do.
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?
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.
Your SaaS vendor is rebuilding from scratch around AI. The buyer's question no one is asking: what happens to the fifteen years of configuration you loaded onto their ship?
Why distrust, not trust, is the binding constraint on autonomous systems.
What changes when AI stops advising and starts acting on its own.
The conditions that make people willing to let a system act on their behalf.
How enterprises actually get from pilot to production — and why most don't.
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