Enterprises Face a 100,000-Agent Governance Problem
Barndoor AI co-founder and CEO Oren Michaels argues that enterprises are approaching a governance problem created by AI agents that can act across Salesforce, Slack, email and other workplace systems. In a conversation with Craig Smith, Michaels says connectivity protocols such as MCP have made it easier for agents to reach enterprise tools, but have not solved the harder question of what a given agent should be allowed to do for a given task. His central claim is that companies will need a separate control layer to manage thousands of task-specific agents, because traditional identity systems assume human judgment that agents do not have.
Eye on AI·Jun 6, 2026·18 min read
