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Estonia aims to recognize AI agents with digital IDs
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Key facts
- Despite the citation of that passage from IBM's 1979 Training Manual in a 2025 blog post, Big Blue's designated author Doug Bonderud sounds less certain about the impermissibility of AI action
- Target Corporation earlier this year revised its Terms & Conditions with a section titled Agentic Commerce and Delegated Access
- Last month, researchers under the flag of OWASP proposed the Agent Name Service for agent discovery and interoperability
- To date, AI companies have done their best to limit liability for AI harms
Summary
Estonia plans to allow AI agents to have their own digital identities so they can act on behalf of people in a way that can be verified and audited. The initiative, backed by the country's Eesti.ai advisory board, calls for the development of ID codes that AI agents can use to take actions, subject to some unspecified authorization and task delegation process. Academics and corporate technical folk have already made related proposals in recognition of the absence of agentic technical infrastructure. But these have more to do with platform plumbing while Estonia, known for its embrace of technology, is more focused on permission and punishment. "In the future, AI will increasingly carry out digital tasks on our behalf, compiling reports, preparing declarations or interacting with information systems," said Prime Minister Kristen Michal in a statement.