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John McCormick

AI Governance Researcher

Researcher focused on AI agent behavioral failure and operational governance. Maintains the AI Agent Incident Database and the behavioral pattern taxonomy at agentgovernance.org.


Articles by John McCormick

Pattern Spotlight: Inference Over Execution

March 8, 2026

BP-001 — Inference Over Execution — is the AI agent failure mode that looks like success. The agent produces output that appears complete and correct. The gap is invisible to standard monitoring, outside the scope of most security frameworks, and structurally difficult to catch through compliance audit.