AI Agents Are Ready to Act. Most Companies Aren’t Ready to Let Them.

AI agents now autonomously perform complex tasks by executing tools, APIs, and code, but most companies lack the operational readiness to safely manage their actions. OpenAI highlights the shift in safety focus from model outputs to the safety of agent actions as autonomy grows. This expansion enables non-developers to create software agents, prompting a need for new enterprise controls beyond traditional safeguards.