From Pledges to Liability: Who Authorized the Agent? | 10.02.26

Senators Hawley and Murphy are preparing an AI Agent Accountability Act that would attach civil and criminal liability to agent-involved hacking incidents, while a wave of other bills proposes a new AI agency, kill switches, and an NTSB-style investigative board. A new arXiv paper explains why today's observability tooling cannot reconstruct who authorized what in delegated agent systems. In Brussels, the EU has pushed high-risk obligations to December 2027 because the standards to demonstrate conformity are not ready. The common thread is that every one of these regimes depends on evidence that most deployments still cannot produce. Full briefing: https://blog.bearcanyonhq.com/post/from-pledges-to-liability-who-authorized-the-agent-10-02-26 Produced in the Bear Canyon Systems Lab. Editorial content — real research, real opinions. Check the sourcing on the blog.