Sumsub proposes Know Your Agent (KYA): identity and accountability for AI agents
Sumsub_Insights · reddit · 2026-10-08
Identity verification company Sumsub published a blog post on a practical gap for autonomous AI agents: they can already act on behalf of users, but are often not identifiable or accountable for those actions.
- The post proposes KYA (Know Your Agent), a framework linking an agent to its operator and scoped permissions so services and users can verify what it is allowed to do.
- The author argues that as agents touch real services and data, identity and scoped authorization become core parts of trust and safety, not just model capability.
- Note: disclosed as Sumsub's own blog content, so it carries a company perspective.
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