Agentic GRC: Teams Get the Tech. The Mindset Shift Is What's Missing.

GRC professionals (those working in governance, risk, and compliance) have access to agentic AI (AI systems that can autonomously complete full workflows rather than just speed them up), but many hesitate to adopt it because they derive their identity and sense of value from the operational work that these agents would replace. The article argues that GRC was originally designed to help organizations understand and manage risk, not to do evidence collection and compliance tasks, and that agents can't function without human insight to define what success looks like, decide acceptable risk levels, and validate outputs.