By Dijam Panigrahi. Originally published in Robotics Tomorrow.
Most manufacturers expect to put agentic AI to work within two years, yet only a small share have a governance model ready for systems that act on their own. Dijam Panigrahi looks at what that gap means on an inspection line, where an AI decision can stop production or clear a part for assembly.
He compares how the EU, the U.S., and Singapore are drawing lines around autonomous decisions, and proposes sorting decisions into three tiers so manufacturers can set where AI acts alone, where it acts within limits, and where a person stays accountable.