Fiduciary AI: Agents need to prove trustworthiness, not just ability

Vijil CEO Vin Sharma says traditional AI benchmarks measure static capability, but do not predict how agents will behave in real production settings.

He proposes treating AI agents like fiduciaries that must continuously prove reliability, security, and safety in the enterprise’s interest.

The key idea is to judge agents by runtime trustworthiness after deployment, since risks, threats, and failure modes keep changing in the field.