As AI agents move data across systems, the rules must move with it
Source: The Business Times
Published on: 2026-10-25 21:54
Lenovo's director of AI governance, Christopher Campbell, says sovereignty now covers what agents do with data, not only where it is stored, and no agent should act beyond its user's permissions HISTORICALLY, data sovereignty has been synonymous with geography, focused on location-based questions. Where is data stored? Where is it permitted to go? Who has access to it? What regulatory bodies govern its use? Those questions remain critical, but agentic AI has created sovereignty issues on its own. Agents do more than read data. They call tools, switch between models, change course and act on their own. That pushes sovereignty past who can reach data and into what a system does with it. Organisations need to set rules for whether an AI system can analyse a dataset, combine it with other sources, hand it to another model or move it to another environment. The orchestration layer that di...
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