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Back-Office Agentic AI Isn't Ungoverned. It's Unclassified.

Quality, procurement, and maintenance agents in manufacturing fall outside the scope rules of ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and NIST AI RMF, not through oversight but by design.

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The Closed-Loop Question: When Industrial AI Agents Get to Act Alone

Zero-miss safety trials and closed-loop agents are pushing plant leaders to decide how much autonomy AI gets inside existing quality and safety systems.