AI Agents Need a Constitution: The Missing Control Layer Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 Didn’t Solve

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge AI Agents Need a Constitution: The Missing Control Layer Google Cloud NEXT ‘26 Didn’t Solve At Google Cloud NEXT ‘26, one thing became clear: We are no longer building software. We are building autonomous systems. With announcements around agent-to-agent communication (A2A), the Agent Development Kit (ADK), and orchestration through Vertex AI, developers now have the tools to create systems that can: plan decide act collaborate But