A Passport Office for AI Agents

The International Telecommunication Union launched a Focus Group on Trust and Identity for Humans and Agentic AI in Geneva on July 9. Its remit is foundational rather than ceremonial: technical, policy, and legal experts will work on ways to identify autonomous agents, establish trustworthy interactions, and keep meaningful human control around sensitive transactions and infrastructure. No binding global standard exists yet; the group is the workshop where proposals can become technical reports or specifications before any later standards process.