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When smart-city “AI agents” start steering state-grid operations, the key compliance question is not interoperability. It is authorization and auditability across layers.
Singapore’s agentic AI framework shows how regulators can require an “audit evidence build” sequence: permissions, traceability, delegated actions, and runtime monitoring with go-live gates.
IMDA’s agentic AI framework doesn’t just ask teams to document—it forces engineering proof for go-live. This editorial shows how to operationalize that “deployment gate” and what “paper compliance” breaks.