OpenAI recently published its view on preparing society and institutions for the transition toward superintelligence. In the technical part of that discussion, several themes stand out clearly: AI trust stack, control of agent actions, verifiable operations, post deployment safety, auditability, accountability, and governance for agentic systems.

OpenAI: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age

These themes point to an architectural problem that will become increasingly important as AI systems move from answering questions to performing actions.

When AI systems become agents, the security question changes.

It is no longer enough to ask only who initiated a process.…