AI governance is lagging AI deployment by a widening margin

Gartner's inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents states it plainly: "enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of governance policy controls." The identity systems designed for human users — who log in and out, who operate one session at a time — do not apply to agents that run continuously, span multiple applications, acquire permissions opportunistically, and act at machine speed. The Hacker News discourse processes this as a technical problem requiring technica ...