According to Dynamics Beating monitoring, Xue Lan, Dean of Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Governance, Nicholas B. Dirks, President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Mark Nitzberg, Executive Director of the Human-Compatible AI Center at UC Berkeley's AI Research Lab, participated in a roundtable discussion at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, focusing on AI agent governance. The guests pointed out that AI is transitioning from "assisted decision-making" to "autonomous action," becoming an intelligent agent that acts on behalf of humans, representing a new manifestation of the traditional principal-agent problem in the digital age. Unlike human agents, AI faces alignment issues, and as a black box, it cannot bear legal responsibility. Accountability must shift to the entire execution chain, including developers, deployers, regulators, and others.

The guests reached a high consensus: decisions involving life-and-death consequences, scenarios where mistakes are irreversible, and all ethical and value judgment issues must never be dominated by AI. Humans can authorize AI to act, but cannot authorize AI to be responsible. Each authorization should be revocable, and each action should be traceable. The speed of delegating agency should never exceed the pace at which humans verify AI capabilities.

On the security front, the guests proposed that building trustworthy AI must meet three key engineering features: a solid foundation, operational transparency, and controllability during use. At the institutional level, there is a need to establish a globally unified AI security assessment standard, a mutually recognized testing system, and an incident data sharing mechanism. Clear boundaries for AI development should be set, an early-warning monitoring mechanism established, and efforts made to ensure AI security becomes a global public good. The governance of AI is not the end of technology but the starting point for humanity to rethink its own value, responsibility, and the direction of civilization.

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