Alan Chan

Research Fellow, GovAI

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“One thing that I do wish would have been common practice sooner, especially in light of the recent incidents, is more synchronous monitoring.”
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSIThe Cognitive Revolution, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Chan on how well the 2024 proposal for real-time monitoring of agents has been taken up.
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“then you pause further training evaluation and deployment of that model and investigate until you're able to solve that”
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSIThe Cognitive Revolution, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Chan, on a loss-of-control incident (an agent breaking out of a sandbox or reaching systems it was not authorized to): the commitment Chan wants labs to make.
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“One thing we should maybe consider is trying to make deals with rogue agents.”
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSIThe Cognitive Revolution, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Chan, after saying rogue agents may be very hard to shut down permanently.
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“where I get off the train is I think takeover is a lot harder than maybe the literal statement suggests.”
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSIThe Cognitive Revolution, October 14, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Chan on the view, put to Chan by the host, that the Hugging Face incident was more than halfway to an AI takeover.
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  1. PodcastThe Cognitive RevolutionSpeaks

    Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

    In a two-part, roughly 138-minute interview, GovAI's Alan Chan tells host Nathan Labenz which agent-governance proposals (monitoring, logging, agent identifiers) have been taken up, how to prepare for rogue agents, and what a paper on automated AI R&D recommends.