Nell Watson, Ali Hessami

Safer Agentic AI (eBook, ePUB)

Principles and Responsible Practices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Implement advanced and agentic AI with confidence, control and strategic foresight.

Safer Agentic AI is a guide for senior technology and business professionals who must deploy the most advanced AI systems in ways that accelerate innovation while preventing critical business, ethical and societal risks. Written by AI ethics and safety experts Nell Watson and Ali Hessami, this book shows senior professionals how to harness agentic and autonomous AI responsibly, ensuring systems remain aligned with organizational values, strategic objectives and human oversight.

Combining technical insight with practical governance, it equips leaders to assess capability, anticipate emerging risks and design controls that enable safe adoption at scale.

You'll learn how to:
- Align agentic AI systems with business goals, values and long-term strategy
- Strengthen transparency, governance and oversight across increasingly autonomous workflows
- Maintain meaningful human control over high-impact systems and decisions
- Apply practical frameworks for risk management, value alignment and ethical safeguards

With clear explanations and actionable tools, Safer Agentic AI helps senior leaders deploy advanced AI that enhances productivity, protects organizational integrity and positions the business to innovate confidently and responsibly.

Themes include: AI governance, agentic AI, risk management, value alignment, transparency, ethical AI, organizational resilience, advanced AI

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398625440
• Artikelnr.: 76131337

Autorenporträt

Nell Watson is a researcher and applied tech ethicist. She advises organizations on their machine learning strategies, specializing in AI research and ethical advocacy. She is President of the European Responsible AI Office and the author of Taming the Machine published by Kogan Page. She lives in Belfast, UK.

Ali Hessami is a systems engineer specializing in risk analysis, assessment and safety. He is Vice Chair of the IEEE AI Ethics Certification Programme and Chair of the IEEE 7000 AI Ethics Standard. He lives in London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
00: Introduction Section
ONE: The Dawn of Agency; Chapter
01: AI Overview; Chapter
02: The Age of Agentic AI; Section
TWO: The Core Alignment Problem Chapter
03: Goal Alignment of Agentic AI Systems; Chapter
04: Value Alignment and Embedding Ethics; Chapter
05: Deceptive and Power
Seeking AI; Chapter
06: Utility Convergence; Section
THREE: The Governance and Safety Toolkit Chapter
07: Safety Fundamentals; Chapter
08: Security and Guardrails; Chapter
09: Agentic Conflict Chapter
10: Transparency and Interpretability; Chapter
11: AI Governance; Chapter
12: Weighted Capability Governance; Section
FOUR: The Human and Societal Interface Chapter
13: Working with Agentic AI; Chapter
14: Psychosecurity; Chapter
15: Who Goes There?; Chapter
16: Self
Watching Machines; Chapter
17: Sustainability and Resource Stewardship; Section
FIVE: The Unchartered Frontier Chapter
18: Disruptive Waves; Chapter
19: Frontier Concerns; Chapter
20: Superintelligence Strategy; Chapter
21: Ten Principles for a Positive Future; Chapter
22: Further Resources; Chapter
23: Glossary