Emily Hartstone is quoted on AI governance, runtime authorization, and the control of machine-initiated action.
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On the difference between a dashboard a manager interprets and a system that reaches a judgment and routes it to HR.
On what changed in hiring after an agent modified a production system it was never authorized to touch.
On what a standards body has to do to stay relevant as machine-initiated action outpaces the standards written for it.
On blast radius, least privilege for non-human identities, and what an agent should be permitted to do before it acts.
Emily Hartstone is a founder and author working in enterprise AI governance. She created Runtime Authority Control, the pre-execution authorization layer that governs what AI systems may do before they act.
Emily Hartstone is a founder and author working in enterprise AI governance. She created Runtime Authority Control, the pre-execution authorization layer that governs what AI and autonomous systems are permitted to do before they act. She is the author of the Runtime Authority Series, comprising Before It Acts, The Chain, and The Root, and of the standalone volume The Third Voice.