In the near future, you won't just use AI—you'll delegate parts of your life to it.
Imagine your personal AI agent booking your family vacation, negotiating deals, and managing your finances while you have dinner. This is the incredible promise of the Agentic Economy, but it hinges on a single, critical question: trust.
In this episode, hosts Cristian Worthington and Sandra Giffin tackle the "AI Trust Triangle," a complex new dynamic between you, online vendors, and the autonomous AI agents acting on your behalf.
The old symbols of trust, like the padlock icon in your browser, are no longer enough for a world where AI agents can make autonomous decisions with your money and personal data.
Join us as we explore:
- The Customer's Dilemma: How can you be sure your agent is competent, loyal, and secure? We explore the risks of AI "hallucinations," biased recommendations, and the massive security concerns of giving an agent the keys to your digital life.
- The Vendor's Dilemma: From the other side, how can a business trust that it's dealing with a legitimate customer and not a malicious bot scraping data or probing for vulnerabilities? We break down the need for verifiable authorization to prevent fraud and liability.
- Building a New Trust Infrastructure: Discover the emerging technologies designed to solve these problems. We provide a high-level overview of solutions like Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs).
- The Future of AI Marketplaces: We discuss how trusted "AI Agent App Stores" and new deputized payment systems from banks will create a secure environment for deploying agents.
- Your Role in the Trust Economy: This future is coming fast. We provide four practical steps you can take right now to become a more conscious consumer of AI, audit your digital identity, and prepare for the agentic world.
This conversation is a crucial guide to navigating the biggest shift in our online interactions since the dawn of the internet.
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