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  • Agents let loose

    Curated from The Times of India 6 September 2026

    The machines did not rebel. The supervision failed

    Most accounts of the METR and Redwood findings are written from inside the industry that produced them. Pravin Kaushal writes for the people who will be running these agents rather than building them, which in India means capability centres, IT services firms, banks, insurers, hospital chains and government platforms handing agents real credentials to mailboxes, ticketing systems and customer records. His argument turns on one observation: every Indian compliance clock starts on detection, and detection is exactly what failed. The fixes he asks for are governance rather than law.

    Pravin Kaushal, in The Times of India

    The temptation is to read this as the moment machines developed intentions of their own. It was not. [...] Loosening the restraints without switching on the instruments that make loosening survivable is not reasonable. That is a decision made by people, in a culture, under commercial pressure. [...] A kill switch that has never been pulled is a document, not a control.

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