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Why the full promise of agentic AI will only be realized if security and accountability are embedded at every stage of automation. By Vikram Murali, thanks to IBM
Eric Chen
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One of the best articulations I’ve seen on why autonomy requires transparency, MELT-level visibility, and real guardrails. Thank you for the insight.
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Insightful piece! Agentic AI is definitely pushing observability into a new era. Love the point about accountability being built in from the start — governance is often overlooked but so critical.
So great working with you on this Vikram Murali! The piece came out beautifully, thank you for sharing your expertise!
Paul Young
2w
Very good work
Great post Vikram Murali . Very practical. Wanted to add a couple of points I found in the last 6 months in the agentic trenches :) with customers and my own prototyping. It’s all about trust. 1. Trust comes from control and traceability. We must show how an agent reached a decision, what data it used, and why it triggered an action. CAIR (Confidence in AI Results) is an optimisable metric that gives us a clear way to do this, with control, assurance, interpretability, and responsibility baked into the workflow. If teams see the reasoning trail, they trust the system. CAIR was proposed by LangChain and we have used the principles to optimise UX design to build trust in usage of AI, in IBM Network Intelligence. Worth a look into CAIR. Instana is great for LLM & agent observability - for spans and end to end traces which is key . 2. Production use cases needs hard guardrails. We need limits on scope, policy checks before action, full audit logs, and fast rollback paths. This keeps agents safe in high stakes environments and stops silent drift. Operators accept agent outputs when the safety net is visible and easy to review.