Image: GoldenDayz/Envato Enterprise AI agents are moving faster than many companies can govern them. At SAS Innovate in Grapevine, Texas, SAS announced a slate of AI tools to make agentic AI more trustworthy, including new Viya assistants, an agentic AI accelerator, industry-specific agents, and a governance product called SAS AI Navigator. The announcements come as enterprises face growing concerns about shadow AI, compliance exposure, and the trustworthiness of autonomous systems in production. The company’s message was clear: AI governance is no longer just a compliance function. SAS wants to position it as the foundation that lets businesses use AI agents without handing them the keys unsupervised. “AI governance is too often thought of as a compliance measure, when it is actually a growth driver,” Reggie Townsend, VP of SAS AI Ethics, Governance and Social Impact, said during the conference.…