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Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet | TechCrunch
Vint Cerf is advising a DNS registry subsidiary's effort to create open standards for AI agents to identify themselves on the internet, addressing the lack of shared infrastructure for autonomous agent accountability and auditability.
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The Wire takeaway
If you're building AI agents that work across the open internet, you need identity infrastructure that doesn't exist yet - and the person who standardised TCP/IP is now designing it. The DNS layer just became the identity layer for machines.
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Topics: AI Agents · Data Infrastructure · ai-agents · dns-infrastructure · open-standards · agent-identity · internet-protocol