Exclusive: Who covers the damage when an AI agent goes rogue? This startup has an insurance policy for that
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The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has announced a $15 million seed round to establish insurance policies targeting AI agents, autonomous systems capable of independent decision-making. Co-founder CEO Rune Kvist emphasizes the need for financial incentives to reduce the risks associated with these technologies. The new risk and safety framework, AIUC-1, integrates existing standards like the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to enhance safety measures for AI adoption, aligning with cloud security expectations and ensuring audits and certifications.
AIUC aims to create insurance policies for autonomous AI agents, ensuring safe adoption in enterprises by providing financial incentives and a new risk and safety framework.
The AIUC-1 framework combines existing standards such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and EU AI Act, adding agent-specific safeguards to facilitate AI adoption.
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