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2026-05-20

When an AI Agent Makes a Decision, Who Is Accountable?

I was reading about a municipal system in Singapore where citizens report potholes through an app, and an AI agent reviews the photos, summarizes the case, and routes the work. Who owns the outcome when that chain fails?

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The AI Dependency Paradox: You Cannot Stop Using What You Cannot Trust
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AI Governance Theater: When Policies Are Performative, Not Protective
2026-05-20·AI & Agentic Systems
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Data Governance Is Institutional Work, Not IT Administration
2026-05-20·IS Theory
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DSR Is Not About the Prototype
2026-05-20·Comps & Reflections
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Digital Colonialism Is an IS Theory Problem, Not Just Politics
2026-05-20·Organizational Theory
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ERP Failure Is Not a Technology Problem. It Is a Structuration Problem.
2026-05-20·IS Theory
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FinTech Is an IS Problem Disguised as Finance
2026-05-20·Comps & Reflections
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Healthcare IS Research Needs to Stop Counting Breaches
2026-05-20·IT Governance & Strategy
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IT Business Value After 30 Years: We Are Still Asking the Wrong Question
2026-05-20·IS Theory
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The Paradox at the Heart of AI Adoption: 88% Explore, 7% Scale
2026-05-20·AI & Agentic Systems
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Protection Motivation Theory Is Trapped in Cybersecurity
2026-05-20·IS Theory
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The Replication Crisis Is an IS Problem Too
2026-05-20·Comps & Reflections
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When AI Takes Over Your Routines, Who Takes Over the Exceptions?
2026-05-19·AI & Agentic Systems
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Green IT Is Not About the Planet. It Is About Institutional Pressure.
2026-05-19·Organizational Theory
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Shadow AI Is Shadow IT on Steroids and We Are Studying It the Same Way
2026-05-19·AI & Agentic Systems
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Signaling Theory Explains Why AI Vendors Overpromise and Buyers Underverify
2026-05-19·AI & Agentic Systems
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Vendor Lock-In Is Not a Problem. It Is a Strategy.
2026-05-19·IT Governance & Strategy
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Agentic AI Changes Organizational Design, Not Just Workflows
2026-05-18·AI & Agentic Systems
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The Cognitive Offloading Problem No One in IS Is Studying
2026-05-18·IS Research Methods
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