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As AI agents act at machine speed, human judgment becomes the last security control. How to build attention, skepticism and oversight.

Topic

Awareness / Phishing / Fraud

When & Where

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Tue, 10/27/2026 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

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  • Format:

    it-sa insights

  • Language:

    German

Session description

Speaker: Anna Collard

The workforce has quietly expanded: alongside people, autonomous AI agents now plan, act and make decisions at machine speed. This talk looks at what that means for the humans who are supposed to stay in control and why our instinctive answer, the "human in the loop", is becoming unrealistic when agents act faster than we can approve. This 15 mins talk will cover:

- Why AI agents are workforce members, not tools – and why risk management must expand to cover both humans and their machine colleagues
- What psychology tells us about automation bias and cognitive offloading: the more capable the agent, the less we check
- From human in the loop to human on the loop: what realistic oversight of agents looks like
- Where to start

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