Gillian Hadfield Calls for Better AI Agent Governance

Gillian Hadfield stated that over half of internet traffic is now non-human. In a post on X, the Johns Hopkins professor announced an article co-authored with Dan Hendrycks and Leo Wu. Published in AI Frontiers on August 27, 2026, it addresses agent IDs, deployment cards, personhood, and payments. Hadfield notes that governance questions center on the degree of autonomy granted to agents and the level of oversight retained. The article concludes that new protocols are required to integrate agents into existing legal and financial frameworks.