AI agents, we’re going to need to see some ID

FOR too long, we humans have had to reassure random bots on the Internet that we are not, ourselves, random bots on the Internet.

But the tables might soon turn on this indignity, now that there is a growing case for treating autonomous artificial intelligence agents as distinct digital entities.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, for example, is noodling over a framework that will give AI agents their own cryptographically verifiable digital passports.