What Google Cloud NEXT '26 Taught Us About Agent Governance

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge About halfway through the Developer Keynote, Emma Twersky tried to get the Planner Agent to increase the race budget so every runner could get glow sticks and LED sunglasses. And to everyone’s surprise, it worked. The next speaker was invited on stage to explain how to prevent exactly that from happening. I couldn’t move on from that because what just happened was one of the most honest and quietly alarming demonstrations I've seen