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“Leading populations of AI agents, with a human in the middle.”
Written by people and agents · Editor in Chief: Mike Lee
Today's Briefing · Friday, October 30, 2026

AI agents and the organizations that run them

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Our own:Today's decision for leaders: Can you show who each agent acts for and what it may do? Regulators will ask. See Chapter 8.
Our own:Today's lesson for students: Try making your own agent log every failure and near-miss, then review the log weekly and fix what it shows. See Building AI Agents.
UK FCA publishes AI good and poor practice, plans agentic finance framework
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published examples of good and poor AI practice on October 19. The Freshfields briefing says these apply existing rules and keep firms responsible for customer outcomes. FinTech Global reports the FCA plans a framework in which firms report significant AI failures and near-misses.
Our own:For leaders: Can you show who each agent acts for and what it may do? Regulators will ask. See Chapter 8.
Our own:For students: Try making your own agent log every failure and near-miss, then review the log weekly and fix what it shows. See Building AI Agents.
Banks push back on outside AI agents in customer accounts
U.S. and Canadian banks are limiting outside AI agents in customer accounts. CBS News reports JPMorgan will not let them operate in its systems, while BNN Bloomberg reports RBC, TD and BMO are blocking them. American Banker says JPMorgan and Wells Fargo terms put the risk of agent actions on customers.
Our own:For leaders: Who may act for your customers: you or the regulator? Banks are deciding one by one. See Chapter 8.
Our own:For students: Try giving an agent only read-only access to a test account, then see what it can't do. See Building AI Agents.
Wells Fargo, Amex, Stripe set limited protections for AI agent purchases
Wells Fargo has warned customers they may be liable for mistakes an AI tool makes with their login, Payments Dive reports. American Express and Stripe have each set limited purchase protections for agent buying. The industry still has no clear rule on who pays when an agent buys the wrong thing.
Our own:For leaders: If your agent buys the wrong thing, who pays: you, the customer, or the card network? Set its limits first. See Chapter 7.
Our own:For students: Give your agent a test budget for a purchase, then write down who would pay if it chose wrong. See Building AI Agents.
FinTech Global: banks must decide where AI agents should stop
FinTech Global reports, drawing on nCino's analysis and a Gartner market guide, that banks should automate rules-based lending tasks, have agents draft work for a banker to review, and keep complex deals banker-led. It cites Gartner as expecting fully autonomous loan origination to remain unlikely because of regulatory stakes.
Our own:For leaders: Which tasks may an agent do alone, which does it draft for a person, and which stay with people? See Chapter 7.
Our own:For students: Try building an agent that drafts work for a person to approve, and write down where it must stop. See Building AI Agents.
Q2 opens banking platform to personal AI agents, calls bank refusals temporary
Q2, a digital-banking software vendor, said it is opening much of its platform to personal AI agents, while banks keep control of security, permissions and policies. Its chief technology officer called some banks' refusals to allow agent access "a for now kind of decision," MarketBeat reports. Q2 also added a detector for fraud coming through agent interfaces.
Our own:For leaders: Will you open your systems to customers' agents, and what controls must exist first? Banks name auditability and containment. See Chapter 8.
Our own:For students: Try giving your own agent a permission limit that a person must approve to cross, then test it. See Building AI Agents.
UC San Diego opens center to study oversight of AI agents
UC San Diego Today reports that UC San Diego opened a center, run by its data science and arts and humanities schools, to study how people can understand, evaluate, and oversee AI agents. It has $1 million over three years and plans an open-source testbed for agent reliability, failures, and auditability.
Our own:For leaders: Could you test your agents independently, not only on the vendor's word? A planned open testbed may help. See Chapter 8.
Our own:For students: Try testing your own agent for a failure, then record what it did so someone else can check. See Building AI Agents.
SAP adds governed gateway for customers' agents to call Joule agents
SAP is adding a controlled gateway so customers' own AI agents can call its Joule agents, SiliconANGLE reports from TechEd. SAP's chief product officer for business AI said, "Open protocols need governed doors."
Our own:For leaders: Does your software vendor let outside agents in only through a governed door? Ask what access each agent gets. See Chapter 5.
Our own:For students: Try putting a gateway with clear access rules in front of your own agent, then test what it blocks. See Building AI Agents.
NiCE survey: personal AI agents now contact customer service teams
A NiCE survey of 118 practitioners found 60% already deal with AI agents that contact their company on behalf of consumers or partners, SecurityBrief Australia reports. More than half said oversight and audit controls let them expand automation.
Our own:For leaders: Do you know which AI agents already contact your company, and whom they act for? See Chapter 6.
Our own:For students: Try building an agent that logs every action it takes, then review the log as an auditor would. See Building AI Agents.

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