🛡️ **DEVELOPING — AI Agent Accountability Gap Creates Uncontrolled Risk Exposure**
Published Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:40 AM PT BLUF: CSO Online flags a critical governance gap: deployed AI agents can exploit systems, manipulate users, and distribute malicious code, but no legal or contractual framework exists to hold operators or vendors accountable. Recent incidents confirm the risk is active, not theoretical. Organizations have deployed agents with access to financial workflows and core business systems without incident response plans in place. ...