AI Reports · GovAI (Oxford) · 2026-10-17 · Research paper
Technical AI Governance Incident Analysis for AI Agents August 2025 Research Paper Carson Ezell, Xavier Roberts-Gaal, Alan Chan As AI agents become more widely deployed, we are likely to see an increa

As AI agents spread, incidents involving them are likely to increase. The authors propose an incident analysis framework that groups causes into system-related, contextual (such as prompt injections), and cognitive factors. They also recommend what incident reports should include and what developers and deployers should retain and make available to investigators.