Estonia plans to become the first country in the world to introduce digital identities for AI agents to better regulate the industry, Prime Minister Kristen Michal (Reform) has said.
Granting digital identities to AI agents means that an agent acting on behalf of a person or company can be given limited and controllable powers, a press release from the government said.
The new IDs will help to prevent situations where individuals or organisations are required to grant AI assistants access to all of their rights, services and data, it added.
One example given was that it must be possible to specify whether an AI agent may only view data, prepare a document, draw up a payment or act solely within a specific financial limit.
Michal said that Estonia’s digital state was built on trust and the core foundations included digital identities, the X-Road, and digital signatures and footprints.
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