Agentic AI: FIDO Alliance Secures Digital Trust

The rise of agentic AI is changing how we think about digital identity. It's no longer just about verifying if a human is who they say they are. Autonomous AI agents are spreading across businesses and consumer uses. This creates an urgent need for new ways to ensure authorization, accountability, and access control. The FIDO Alliance has launched new industry standards to address this through its Agentic Authentication Working Group. Experts compare this shift to the development of mobile commerce. The internet's trust infrastructure assumed a human was at the keyboard, but agentic AI breaks that assumption. Securing AI agents is different from securing humans. Human verification confirms identity, but AI agents are ephemeral and can delegate authority. Existing protocols weren't built for this complexity. New systems are needed to validate both the agent's identity and its precise scope of authority. This matters because new standards and protocols are essential for secure and trustworthy AI agent interactions.