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Identity Governance for Autonomous AI: Addressing the NHI Identity Gap
The shift toward autonomous AI agents has created a critical "Identity Gap" where legacy IAM and OAuth 2.0/OIDC protocols fail to manage the non-deterministic agency of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). This gap enables "invisible administration," where agents accrue permissions beyond their intended scope without direct attribution to a human principal. The lack of identity anchoring leads to systemic risks, including unauthorized privilege escalation, identity spoofing, and accountability voids during agentic misbehavior. Remediation requires transitioning to intent-based authorization via Policy-as-Code (PaC) and implementing immutable agentic provenance to link every autonomous action back to a verifiable human owner.
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