Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission autonomous AI agents due to governance gaps identified only after production incidents occur.
The instinct when something goes wrong: kill it. Revoke access. Freeze the wallet. Shut it down.
Cerbos published the counter-argument that CISOs are now adopting: "Allow or revoke. Deploy or kill. That works in a lab. It does not work in a hospital, a bank, a payments network, or any environment where the agent is doing something a human used to do, and stopping it instantly creates a different incident than the one you were trying to prevent."
The kill switch creates a second incident. The industry needs a dimmer switch.
Why Binary Stop Creates Cascading Failure
