---
id: "action-create-ai-auditing-tools"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ 2. Encourage Market Enforcement of AI Agent Independence"]
tags: ["market-solutions", "product-development"]
related: ["concept-ai-credit-bureaus", "framework-trustworthy-ai-triad"]
action: "Develop third-party AI auditing tools and 'credit bureaus' to monitor and limit agent autonomy."
outcome: "Users gain independent control over the scale and frequency of consequential decisions made by their agents."
speakers: ["Blair Levin", "Larry Downes"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-cl-88-can-ai-agents-be-trusted"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/05/can-ai-agents-be-trusted"
sourceTitle: "Can AI Agents Be Trusted?"
---
# Create Independent AI Auditing Tools

**Action.** Develop independent third-party tools—credit-bureau-style services and insurers—that let users monitor, control, audit, and limit the autonomy of their AI agents, independent of the software's creators.
**Owner.** Market service providers (insurers, [[concept-ai-credit-bureaus|'AI credit bureaus']], identity-theft protectors).
**Outcome.** Users gain independent control over the scale and frequency of consequential decisions their agents make—e.g., freezing autonomy or capping per-period decisions.

Implements prong 2 of [[framework-trustworthy-ai-triad]]. **Enrichment:** independent audits, certification schemes, and post-deployment monitoring are commonly proposed complements to legal duties; standards such as [[entity-iso-iec-42001]] describe controls these services could certify against.