Agent identity verification will be a mess: restaurants ignore AI emails
alliekmiller · x · 2026-10-21
Allie K Miller's third learning from letting her AI assistant plan a date: identity verification will be a shitshow — with dozens of AI proxies emailing on your behalf, how do agents prove they represent a human, and why should recipients trust them? Friends played along with AI emails from her real address, but restaurants did not.
Related event: Allie K Miller's experiment: AI agent plans an entire friend date(8 posts)→
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