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viva · Episode 1 · Live, date and time to be announced

The chain of control

What must be true before an AI agent can be trusted to act inside an enterprise?

One question, four voices from sapperment's Leading Top Voices, moderated live and unscripted by Bonnie D. Graham. The question comes from the Executive Clarity synthesis "AI agents do not need more data. They need business context." — this episode takes it from the page to the table.

viva Episode 1 — the chain of control: episode card with the marionette key visual and the four panel angles
The Episode 1 card. The marionette sketch is the episode's key visual: who holds the strings, and who is accountable when they let go.

Four voices, one piece of the answer each

Robert Lienhard
Robert Lienhard LTV — Leading Top Voice

Better context raises the human standard. Which human contribution gains value once the keystrokes disappear?

Rej Pathania
Rej Pathania LTV — Leading Top Voice

One truth does not mean one representation. Let the machine propose; let an accountable person decide where being wrong is expensive.

Tobias Unger
Tobias Unger LTV — Leading Top Voice

Semantic disagreement is organisational disagreement. Technology exposes the seams; it does not repair them.

Philip Zhang
Philip Zhang LTV — Leading Top Voice

Can the architecture perform real work? If the demonstration stops before execution, it has proved insight, not agency.

The panel is in confirmation; the angles are directional, from the alignment thread.

How it will run

Live-streamed and unscripted — one question, an hour of honest disagreement, and a moderator who keeps it that way. Every session has a dry run a few days before going live; the recording stays available on demand afterwards. Moderated by Bonnie D. Graham, the broadcast journalist who created SAP's original thought-leadership radio series.

Next: the essay behind the question — AI agents do not need more data. They need business context. — or back to the viva series.