Billions of AI agents are coming: why every machine needs a digital ID passport
mikeflache · x · 2026-10-17
Dinis Guarda argues that as AI moves from generation and reasoning to autonomous action — booking, paying, approving, coding — an economy of billions of agents is emerging, and autonomy without identity is a systemic risk.
Key points:
- Like human passports, machines need digital identity layers proving identity, permissions, provenance, accountability and trust levels to operate safely across business and financial systems
- The next AI infrastructure layer will be about trust and verification, not just models, compute and orchestration
- Framed against NVIDIA's agentic infrastructure push, with a playbook for enterprises across eight industries
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