This article Sonal Makhija, an AI & data compliance lead at the H&M Group, where she has led the AI Act implementation. It explores the kind of legal ambiguity that small and medium enterprises face when navigating the AI Act and the resulting need for greater clarity and practical guidance. It also discusses how AI governance risks arising out of everyday AI use cases, which typically fall within limited to low-risk classifications under the AI Act, but pose significant secu

As AI agents become more capable — reasoning, collaborating, adapting, and acting independently — the questions of evaluation, safety, governance, and trust become even more urgent. To help shape this global conversation, we’ve highlighted a few key insights from the World Economic Forum white paper contributed to by Nebahat Arslan, our Global Head of Partnerships. These insights point to what responsible, inclusive AI must look like in the age of agentic systems.