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Comment by Brenda Leong
Director of AI Division, ZwillGen PLLC (technology law firm), AI governance and legal expert
We are moving from AI-as-tool, where a human uses a machine to support their own analysis or recommendations, to AI-as-agent, where the machine initiates, decides, and executes, potentially without human involvement. A fiduciary gap emerges in a world of agentic AI. Without a fiduciary standard, the Duty of Loyalty functionally disappears.
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(2026)
2mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
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Verified quote attributed to Brenda Leong, Director of the AI Division at ZwillGen. The ZwillGen URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed her bylined article "The Fiduciary in the Machine" exists on zwillgen.com and develops exactly these themes: the shift from "AI-as-tool" (human uses machine) to "AI-as-agent" (machine initiates, decides, executes), the emergence of a fiduciary gap in agentic AI, and the collapse of the Duty of Loyalty when the human fiduciary anchor disappears. The quoted phrasing closely matches the article's content. Year (2026) is current. Author attribution confirmed (Leong is the article's author and ZwillGen's AI Division Director). Source URL is ZwillGen's own publication — the primary source. Vote alignment: the statement is "Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies"; Leong warns that without a fiduciary standard the Duty of Loyalty functionally disappears in agentic AI, supporting restriction of autonomous AI decisions in fiduciary contexts, so a "for" vote matches.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 12d ago
replying to Brenda Leong