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Agentic AI Exposes a Widening Governance Gap

Multiple industry pieces and academic work warn that **agentic AI**, autonomous, goal-directed systems that act across APIs and enterprise services, is outpacing existing governance and measurement frameworks. zvelo's blog post describes a cross-domain governance gap as agents move into procurement, identity, and workflow orchestration. An arXiv paper by Chandra Prakash et al. proposes a **Unified Agent Lifecycle Management (UALM)** blueprint with five control-plane layers for healthcare use cases. The **Brookings Institution** convened a workshop on October 14, 2025, and summarized the core problem as: "We cannot govern what we cannot measure." Consulting coverage from **Deloitte** and enterprise strategy posts (Agility-at-Scale, TEKsystems, Pixee) offer roadmaps and controls but emphasize implementation complexity and sprawl. Practitioners should treat cross-domain identity, orchestration, runtime policy, and lifecycle controls as priority areas.