AI systems are increasingly making consequential business decisions autonomously: blocking transactions, approving loans, executing trades, and re-routing flight tickets without any human reviewing each decision in real time. Corporate boards must explicitly authorise which decisions AI systems can make independently, just as boards authorise lending limits or trading mandates for human executives. Without formal delegation frameworks, organisations face governance failures r

With the advent of autonomous AI agents, the traditional roles of buyer and seller in market transactions are undergoing a fundamental transformation. Increasingly, it is AI agents, acting as digital representatives of their human principals, who negotiate, evaluate, and consummate transactions. These agents operate on behalf of end consumers or firms (buyers) and interact directly with corresponding seller agents to secure optimal outcomes.

The 2025 Paris AI Action Summit was meant to be a moment of global unity—a declaration that artificial intelligence would be developed open.