Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID - Decrypt

In brief

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal approved an Eesti.ai advisory council proposal on June 17 to create an "AI personal identification code.”

The ID would let an agent's permissions be scoped to specific actions instead of granting full access to a person's accounts and services.

Michal gave no start date for the system and no detail on how liability would work when an agent with its own ID makes a costly mistake.

Estonia wants to give artificial intelligence its own government ID. Prime Minister Kristen Michal said Wednesday he had approved an Eesti.ai advisory council proposal to issue AI agents a personal identification code—a digital identity separate from the human, company, or institution the agent works for.Michal framed it as a fix for a problem that already exists: an agent that books a flight, files taxes, or edits a document today usually has to borrow its owner's entire digital identity to do it. Estonia, he said, could become the "first country to create an official digital identity for AI agents."