# Brian Behlendorf & Tricia Wang: Shadow IT to Shadow Agents | Intelligence at the Frontier 2026

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2026-05-09
- Duration: 36:04
- Topics: Brian Behlendorf, Tricia Wang, Open Source Security Foundation, Apache Foundation, Hyperledger, proof of control, open source AI, AI security 2026, shadow agents, AI accountability, Linux kernel security, AI governance 2026, agent orchestration, AI liability, Intelligence at the Frontier, Funding the Commons, tech for good, AI safety 2026, open source movement, human agency AI
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-Tbm30b9lc3c
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbm30b9lc3c

## Description

In 1998, a group of developers named what they'd been doing all along — and "open source" became something companies could adopt, fund and build on. Brian Behlendorf was in that room. He thinks we're at an identical moment with proof of control.

Brian, co-founder of the Apache Foundation and former head of Hyperledger, sits down with Tricia Wang to trace the line from open source to the agent security challenge we face today. The same social engineering attacks that almost compromised the Linux kernel will happen at a hundred times the scale when agents are doing the contributing.

He argues that the most urgent problem is liability washing: humans deploying agents to cause harm, then escaping accountability because no one can trace the action back to them. Proof of control is what connects agents back to the upstream humans responsible for them.

Speakers: Brian Behlendorf (Open Source Security Foundatio