AI Agent Identity Gaps

Takumi Otsuka, Kentaroh Toyoda, Alex Leung (arXiv) pdf 2026-04-01T00:00:00
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Abstract

AI agents are now running real transactions, workflows, and sub-agent chains across organizational boundaries, mostly without continuous human supervision. This creates a problem that no current infrastructure is equipped to solve: how do you identify, verify, and hold accountable an entity with no body, no persistent memory, and no legal standing? AI Identity is the continuous relationship between what an AI agent is declared to be and what it is observed to do, bounded by the confidence that those two things correspond at any given moment.

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