📌 Louis Columbus on why enterprise AI governance is falling behind the agents it is supposed to control.
Every board loves a committee.
A committee means somebody is watching. There is a charter. There are meetings. There is probably a very nice deck explaining responsible AI.
Meanwhile, the AI agents are already running.
That was the tension running through my conversation with Louis Columbus, senior cybersecurity contributor at VentureBeat. We talked about agentic identity, least privilege, shadow AI and what actually happens when AI governance moves from a policy discussion to a production environment.
And Louis kept coming back to a pretty uncomfortable point:
Governance that cannot enforce anything isn’t really governance.
As Louis put it, “Governance really exists on paper, but it doesn’t enforce at runtime.”
That distinction is about to matter a lot.
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Sep 16, 2026 · 11:33 AM UTC
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