statements · statement-BATCH-2026-004-007

person-BATCH-2026-005-tobin-south

South warns that responsibility for consequential agent actions is legally and operationally unclear, and argues for guardrails that combine task alignment, bounded access, and explicit analysis of business-process risk and liability.

Statement context

Statement type: warning
Exact source locator: 00:27:37
Source date: 2025-12-08
Role at source time: Co-chair, Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group
Evidence character: expert warning and interpretation
Scope: Responsibility, legal agency, and guardrails for consequential automated actions.

Recorded uncertainty: This is not legal advice and does not resolve liability under any jurisdiction.

Indexed source: #390 - Identity Management for Agentic AI with Tobin South

Evidence lineage and transparency

Relationship field	Linked identifiers
topic ids	topic-ai-liability, topic-ai-governance, topic-cybersecurity

Machine review: ready for human review. Human review: approved. Workflow: published.

Complete structured record

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person id: person-BATCH-2026-005-tobin-south
institutional author: Unknown
book edition id: Unknown
speaker role at source time: Co-chair, Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group
organization at source time: OpenID Foundation
statement type: warning
neutral paraphrase: South warns that responsibility for consequential agent actions is legally and operationally unclear, and argues for guardrails that combine task alignment, bounded access, and explicit analysis of business-process risk and liability.
direct quote: Unknown
direct quote rights note: Unknown
exact locator: 00:27:37
locator type: timestamp
source date: 2025-12-08
topic ids: topic-ai-liability, topic-ai-governance, topic-cybersecurity
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industry context: cross-industry enterprise
geographic context: geo-global
evidence character: expert_warning_and_interpretation
factual verification status: conceptual_not_jurisdiction_specific
statement scope: Responsibility, legal agency, and guardrails for consequential automated actions.
uncertainty: This is not legal advice and does not resolve liability under any jurisdiction.
extraction method: machine_assisted_transcript_navigation_with_audio_context_review
machine extraction confidence: 0.95
independent agent review status: not_reviewed
publication status: published
workflow status: published
machine review status: ready_for_human_review
human review status: approved
reviewed by: Murray Newlands
reviewed at: 2026-08-16T23:17:22Z

Provenance and revision history

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