A Case for Governed Reasoning

AI is moving into messy, high-stakes domains where evidence is incomplete and often conflicting. It’s fine for code gen, but when it comes to managing engineering teams or systems diagnosis, agents collapse uncertainty into confident, untraceable answers. Dr. Stephen Barrett argues for a control layer of “governed reasoning,” where AI decisions are structured, stateful, and constrained like software, making them inspectable, reliable, and safe to use at scale.