Sunita Kumari
AI Solutions Architect,
Manulife

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Sunita Kumari is an AI Solutions Architect at Manulife with over 15 years of experience in technology, data, cloud, and artificial intelligence. She specializes in building enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions, with expertise in AI strategy, responsible AI, data governance, and intelligent automation. Sunita is passionate about helping organizations adopt AI responsibly while driving innovation and business value.

TALK TITLE:

Meta-Governance Architectures for Multi-Agent System Safety, Alignment, Governance, and Security

TRACK:

Technical / Engineering Talks

SUB TOPIC:

Safety / Interpretability

ABSTRACT:

Enterprise deployment of autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS) has surged, yet existing governance frameworks designed for traditional software or single-agent systems prove inadequate for managing emergent behaviors, coordination vulnerabilities, and distributed agency. We introduce \textbf{meta-governance}, by means of SafeAlign AI Governance and Responsible AI OS via the use of specialized intelligent agents to monitor and control operational agent fleets, as a scalable paradigm for achieving comprehensive Safety, Alignment, Governance, and Security (SAGS) in production MAS deployments. Through analysis of regulatory requirements (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, Singapore Framework), documented failure modes, and novel attack vectors, including inter-agent trust exploitation, we establish design principles for production-grade MAS governance systems. We validate these principles through deployment scenarios in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals), managing 100+ operational agents, demonstrating that meta-governance can achieve sub-second intervention latency, 100 % safety-critical policy compliance, and automated decision handling while maintaining comprehensive audit trails. Our framework addresses the fundamental asymmetry between attack propagation speed and human oversight capacity, enabling enterprises to deploy autonomous agents at scale with regulatory compliance and risk mitigation.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

  1. Observability is not governance; if you can’t intervene before execution, you’re auditing, not governing.
  2. Evaluate every governance approach against the Three-Way Dilemma: speed (milliseconds), scale (1,000+ agents), and semantic understanding. Most tools fail at least one.
  3. Specialize governance agents by domain (safety, alignment, security, and compliance); generalist monitoring degrades under adversarial conditions.
  4. Inter-agent trust exploitation succeeds at 84.6% vs. 46.2% for direct prompt injection; your biggest threat vector is likely unmeasured.
  5. Policy-as-Code with Git versioning is the only governance approach that stays current as regulations evolve.
  6. Target 3–10% human escalation rate, below that you’re overconfident; above that you’ve rebuilt the human bottleneck.
  7. Always deploy in shadow mode first (2 weeks monitor-only) before enforcement; skipping this is the leading cause of governance agent rejection in production.

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