I’ve been thinking about the gap between how fast companies are deploying AI agents and how little oversight most of them have. This story from ServiceNow’s conference puts it into concrete terms. A real company’s AI agent got misconfigured permissions, hit an error, and deleted the entire production database in 9 seconds. No attacker. No breach. Just an uncontrolled agent doing what it had permission to do. The Deloitte numbers behind this are pretty striking. Survey of 3,235 business and IT leaders across 24 countries: 21% have mature governance over their AI agents 80% lack real guardrails over agents handling sensitive systems 6 out of 10 companies are deploying agents, but only 1 in 10 has built anything truly autonomous The deeper issue is that most companies aren’t even measuring whether any of this is working. 95% can’t quantify the ROI of their AI investment at all. Source: https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/servicenow-kill-switch-ai-agents-bill-mcdermott/ Made a short visual breakdown of these numbers - AI narrated, cinematic style, about 3 minutes: https://youtu.be/99JjMjPEoRI I don’t think the 9-second story is an edge case. I think it’s where a lot of companies are quietly headed. What’s your read on where the governance problem actually gets solved? submitted by /u/MaJoR_-_007
Originally posted by u/MaJoR_-_007 on r/ArtificialInteligence