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CIO.com · October 28, 2026 · On the brief until November 11, 2026

Your AI agents have audit logs. Can you reconstruct their decisions?

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THE AI ANGLE
Making autonomous operational decisions across enterprise systems

AI agents make operational choices like cancelling contracts or issuing refunds, but standard enterprise logs cannot reconstruct why those choices occurred. Organizations must now capture structured decision records that preserve inputs, reasoning rules, delegated authority, and downstream consequences. This shift requires accounting, operations, and technology teams to treat machine decision reconstruction as an active governance discipline.

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THE TEACHING ANGLE
A central tension is whether traditional IT audit logs can satisfy regulators when non-deterministic software acts on distributed authority.

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