{"id":283737,"date":"2026-06-29T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing-meritalk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:25:07","slug":"ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing-meritalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing-meritalk\/","title":{"rendered":"SSA AI Chief: Agentic AI Is Ready With Governance, Testing \u2013 MeriTalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing\/\">SSA AI Chief: Agentic AI Is Ready With Governance, Testing \u2013 MeriTalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing\/\">https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 14:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.meritalk.com\">www.meritalk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Administration (SSA) believes agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is ready for mission use, but agencies will only realize its potential if they pair the technology with rigorous governance, continuous testing, and modernized data infrastructure, the agency\u2019s chief AI officer said on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at ACT-IAC\u2019s AI Forum, Brian Peltier, SSA\u2019s head of technology, customer data, and AI and chief AI officer, said the agency is approaching a fundamental shift in how it delivers services as AI capabilities mature alongside years of technology modernization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on the cusp of really changing the way we operate, how we work, and how we service our customers,\u201d Peltier said.<\/p>\n<p>Agentic AI is ready to support agency missions not only because the technology has advanced, but also because agencies have spent years modernizing their underlying systems, Peltier said. Even so, he cautioned that successful deployment depends on governance, security, and operational safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Agentic AI] is nondeterministic. It can do things that you may not expect,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, what you really need to do is constantly look at and constantly test from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, agencies should first determine whether AI is the right solution for a problem before moving forward. Once a use case is identified, they should establish clear performance metrics and desired outcomes, and then bring together security professionals, attorneys, developers, and data specialists throughout development and deployment, Peltier said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonitor that all the way through into production to make sure that it is doing exactly what you want, how you want,\u201d he said. \u201cYou must be testing; you must be sampling in production \u2026 looking for is it doing what I expect \u2026 or \u2026 where people are trying to then do injections \u2026 if you\u2019re doing something public facing and they\u2019re trying to hack your system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peltier also stressed that AI modernization should&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSA AI Chief: Agentic AI Is Ready With Governance, Testing \u2013 MeriTalk https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/articles\/ssa-ai-chief-agentic-ai-is-ready-with-governance-testing\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/shutterstock_2606160861-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-283737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283739,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283737\/revisions\/283739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}