Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

AIUC, an AI standards and insurance company, connects two questions enterprise buyers face: how an agent's safeguards were tested, and who pays for covered failures. In this interview, its cofounder describes separate checks for whether controls exist and whether they actually work. An auditor can inspect evidence of a safeguard; technical testing then probes its effectiveness.

Those test results help insurers price coverage. The policy specifies covered risks and payment limits, giving buyers a concrete financial commitment alongside the assessment. The proposed benefit is a clearer basis for accepting deployment risk, with compensation tied to the policy's terms. The interview says no claims have been made yet, so how payouts work in practice is untested.