Need stronger guardrails against Agentic AI risks: FM
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday warned that the rapid adoption of Agentic AI, tokenisation and quantum computing could create new systemic risks if technological progress outpaces safeguards, calling for stronger accountability, oversight and institutional preparedness.
“As we rapidly progress into the era of Agentic AI, tokenisation, and quantum computing, we all need to ask a critical question to ourselves: how do we balance breakthrough efficiency against emerging systemic risk?” Sitharaman said, addressing the 7th Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai,
