Google launches workplace AI agent that gets its own email address

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Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the year asking about.

Google is giving AI agents their own email addresses. The Gemini agent it announced on Thursday creates coworker agents that hold a Workspace account, a calendar, a Drive and an entry in the company directory. They act under their own identity rather than the employee’s.

Each gets a cryptographically attested identity, stamped into its logs and into any virtual machine it starts, Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian wrote in the announcement. Administrators approve role-based permissions. All traffic passes through what Google calls an AI network firewall.

The agent works inline in Gmail, Drive, Docs,...

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