A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity
Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that.
Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to each other. He left Google last week after 20 years. Now he is joining the advisory council of Innovation Labs, a group building an open identity layer for AI agents, the company announced.
The missing layer
The problem is simple to state. Most AI agents today live inside one company’s systems. But firms want them roaming the open web, dealing directly with other agents. There is no shared way to prove who owns an agent, or who answers for what it does.
Innovation Labs is a division of Identity Digital, a firm that runs...
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