Today we joined
@tiagosada and
@worldnetwork on stage to unveil what we've been working on
@okta: Human Principal
Let's dive in 👇
Dev products with free offerings and social media platforms are vulnerable to abuse. AI makes scaled abuse and fraud easier than ever. As agents continue to go mainstream, these problems are expected to exacerbate. Without a way to distinguish the human behind agents, other options can be aggressively rate-limiting or per-product heavyweight KYC processes, both of which add friction, can introduce data privacy risks, and undermine the value of automated agentic workflows.
*Human Principal will allow API builders to verify whether a human stands behind an agent and its actions, and enforce policies accordingly. Humans will be able to verify themselves using a number of verification methods, and obtain device-bound cryptographic proof that carries across products without requiring cumbersome re-verification.
@world_id, slated to become one of the first Human Principal integration partners, is set to provide Human Principal a privacy-preserving, user-friendly, and ubiquitous proof of human verification method. This will enable features like rate limits per human for agent traffic, abuse-protected free tiers, and a cleaner onboarding flow for agents that need to access services on behalf of their human principal.
The waitlist to join the upcoming Human Principal beta is now open at
humanprincipal.ai
*Forward-looking statements apply
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