Conflict Resolution Playbook: How Agentic AI Systems Detect, Negotiate, and Resolve Disputes at Scale
Agentic AI, AI Governance, Governance-by-design Michael Fauscette Agentic AI, AI Governance, Governance-by-design Michael Fauscette

Conflict Resolution Playbook: How Agentic AI Systems Detect, Negotiate, and Resolve Disputes at Scale

When you deploy dozens or hundreds of AI agents across your organization, you're not just automating tasks. You're creating a digital workforce with its own internal politics, competing priorities, and inevitable disputes. The question isn't whether your agents will come into conflict. The question is whether you've designed a system that can resolve those conflicts without grinding to a halt or escalating to human intervention every time.

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Beyond Bottlenecks: Dynamic Governance for AI Systems
Agentic AI, AI Governance, Governance-by-design, MAS Michael Fauscette Agentic AI, AI Governance, Governance-by-design, MAS Michael Fauscette

Beyond Bottlenecks: Dynamic Governance for AI Systems

As we move from single Large Language Models to Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), we're discovering that intelligence alone doesn't scale. The real challenge is coordination, orchestration and governance. Imagine you've deployed 100 autonomous agents into your enterprise. One specializes in customer data analysis. Another handles inventory optimization. A third manages supplier communications. Each agent is competent at its job. But when a supply chain disruption hits, who decides which agents act first? When two agents need the same resource, who arbitrates? When market conditions shift, how do they reorganize without human intervention?

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The Impact of Bad Data on Modern AI Projects (and How to Fix It)
Agentic AI, Data Quality Michael Fauscette Agentic AI, Data Quality Michael Fauscette

The Impact of Bad Data on Modern AI Projects (and How to Fix It)

The enterprise AI conversation has been dominated by models. Which LLM should we license? Should we fine-tune or use RAG? What about open-source versus proprietary? These are the wrong questions to start with.

The AI boom is exposing a truth that data teams have known for years: most organizations are building on a foundation of poor-quality data. Decades of neglected data strategy are now coming due. The models are powerful, but they're only as reliable as what they're trained on and what they retrieve.

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Governance by Design: Embedding Ethical Guardrails Directly into Agentic AI Architectures
Agentic AI, AI Governance, AI Ethics Michael Fauscette Agentic AI, AI Governance, AI Ethics Michael Fauscette

Governance by Design: Embedding Ethical Guardrails Directly into Agentic AI Architectures

As artificial intelligence systems gain increasing levels of autonomy, the traditional approach of adding compliance measures after deployment is proving inadequate. We need a new approach: Governance by Design; a proactive methodology that weaves ethical guardrails directly into the fabric of AI architectures from the ground up.

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