Five Decision Rights CIOs Need for Agentic AI
Architecture & Governance Magazine, Friday, September 25th, 2026
Architecture & Governance outlines five decision-right controls CIOs need to govern agentic AI systems.
The article argues agentic AI needs governance beyond standard AI oversight, built on five decision rights that convert intent into operational authority: authorization (who may delegate actions, via least-privilege and separation of duties), data access (which sources and fields agents can query, and retention/sharing limits), human intervention (approval checkpoints scaled to risk), exception handling (favoring stop-and-escalate over improvised retries), and accountability (named owners across business, technical, risk, and operations functions with evidence retention). Implementation runs through architecture review, engineering controls, monitoring, and reassessment after material changes.