Okta’s Ric Smith: Your AI Agent Is Roaming The Office Hallway. Do You Know What It's Doing?
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Principal–agent problem
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The core tension in the article—AI agents acting autonomously without proper oversight—is a modern manifestation of this classic economic and organizational theory problem about delegation and control
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Access control
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Okta's business centers on identity and access management; understanding the foundational concepts of access control systems provides essential context for why boundaries for AI agents matter
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As companies rush to deploy AI agents, they’re letting new ‘digital workers’ loose in their workplaces, often without much thought about the boundaries needed to keep them under control.
Okta president of products and technology Ric Smith believes it’s as if these companies are inviting new workers into t…
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