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Human oversight of AI becomes a design requirement, not a signature
Article 14 of the EU AI Act makes human oversight of AI decisions testable: understand, detect deviations, override and emergency stop, all demonstrably logged.
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AI governance: who is accountable for AI decisions
AI governance becomes concrete in one question: when an AI-supported decision turns out to be wrong, who is accountable and what can they show? This hub follows that question through regulators, procurement conditions and oversight design.
The pillar article sets out accountability. The other articles cover oversight, thresholds, logging, procurement criteria and reporting duties.
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July 16, 2026
AI Agents and Sensitive Data: Why Visible Access and Logging Are Becoming Indispensable
Research in 2026 shows that AI agents are a major source of data breaches. Why least-privilege, logging and verification are now indispensable.
July 23, 2026
AI agents as auditable actors under the EU AI Act
From 2 August 2026 strict logging and traceability duties apply to high-risk AI agents. What does this mean for agents with internal access?
August 3, 2026
AI procurement terms become hard selection criteria
The DOE and DOI tie AI procurement to bias tests, data provenance and logging. What does this shift mean for selecting AI services handling sensitive data?
August 25, 2026
Cross-border data routes in AI become an explicit risk layer
In July 2026, cross-border data routes in AI services shift from invisible infrastructure to a governance topic that must be explicitly accounted for.
August 25, 2026
Exit and fallback for AI services: what the July 2026 OpenAI outage exposes
After the 17-day OpenAI outage of July 2026, exit rights, data portability and tested failover prove to be a governance layer, not a contractual detail.
August 18, 2026
Explainability is not an audit trail: why AI transparency needs two layers
Research from 2026 shows that chain-of-thought is not a reliable audit trail. Why explainability and auditability are two distinct requirements.
July 16, 2026
The EU AI Act and confidential documents: what the high-risk rules require
How the EU AI Act's high-risk rules change working with AI on confidential documents, and why logging, oversight and verifiability now matter.
July 16, 2026
The EU AI Act makes recruitment AI high-risk: what HR must do now
AI tools for CV screening and candidate assessment count as high-risk under the EU AI Act. What this means for safe AI use in HR processes.
August 20, 2026
Threshold values for AI decisions are becoming a legal design variable
China's agent rules and the AI Act make thresholds for AI-assisted decisions explicit. What does that mean for high-trust workflows?
August 20, 2026
Who Is Accountable for AI Decisions? Regulators Draw the Line
The EDPB and EDPS warn that simplifying the AI Act must not hollow out accountability. What does that mean for governance responsibility around AI?