Pakistan’s AI Procurement Needs Proof That the Stop Switch Works
Before granting AI agents real authority, buyers should demand witnessed stop tests, controls on agent coordination and independent activity logs.

Behavioral scientist and CEO, Disaster Avoidance Experts
Gleb Tsipursky, PhD, is a behavioral scientist and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts. He wrote The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results.
Before granting AI agents real authority, buyers should demand witnessed stop tests, controls on agent coordination and independent activity logs.
Argues that organizations deploying AI agents need a measurable authority budget: an explicit limit on the data, tools, money, and records an agent may touch before a person must decide, grounded in the July 2026 OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.