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Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs

I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)

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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.

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