Rights Can Move.
Accountability
Does Not.
The core governance fact of the agentic firm: you can delegate the right to execute and share
the responsibility to maintain, but a named human must carry the ultimate accountability.
Operational
Rights
Execution
Responsibilities
Named
Accountability
Delegated to Agents
(retrieving data, drafting,
triggering workflows).
Shared by Teams
(maintaining context,
setting thresholds,
designing evals).
Held strictly by Humans
(owning the risk when
systems fail).
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