AI Agents Also Need ID - When Your AI Assistant Starts Using Your Credit Card
AI Agents are evolving from chatbots into digital agents that can trade autonomously, but when AI can spend money on its own, verifying “who’s behind it” becomes crucial. World, Coinbase, Visa, and Mastercard are building identity verification infrastructure for the AI era, using zero-knowledge proofs and other technologies to let platforms verify that Agents represent real humans rather than malicious bots.