There's a corporate trust-fall exercise: cross your arms, close your eyes, and topple backwards, betting that someone is standing behind you. This is, increasingly, how companies deploy AI agents. Except they've skipped the part where they check whether anyone is actually there. We've moved from AI that answers to AI that acts, and somewhere between demo and deployment a quiet substitution happens: “the agent CAN do this” becomes “the agent SHOULD do this, unsupervised.” Capable and trustworthy are not synonyms; they're not even close. With real failures and the maths nobody wants to do: an agent that's right 95% of the time, acting a thousand times a day, is fifty confident, articulate, fully automated mistakes daily, each signed with your company's name. We separate genuine autonomy from autonomy theatre, and treat human-in-the-loop as a control rather than a courtesy.

This is more a keynote, but can be done as normal breakout session.