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"We, the undersigned, endorse the principle that autonomous AI agents should be governable before they act, accountable for what they do, and answerable to a named human — and that these guarantees should be open, verifiable, and available to everyone through a free and neutral standard."
This is a statement of principle, open to anyone — individuals, not just organisations. It simply records that you believe AI agents should answer to people, through a standard that is free for everyone to read, implement, and verify.
Gartner projects task-specific AI agents in enterprise apps will jump from under 5 % today to 40 % by end of 2027 — but no shared governance vocabulary exists yet.
The EU AI Act's serious-incident reporting duty is now law. Organisations deploying agents need a framework that answers the regulator's questions before they are asked.
Three major frameworks — none built for autonomous agents. F‑ACT’s five questions (GUARD) map onto all three, filling the gap with a single citable control set.