Who Authorised the Agent?AI Delegation and the Missing Legal Identity Layer

An autonomous AI agent recently created a dating profile on behalf of its user after being instructed simply to “explore its capabilities”. The episode illustrates a structural limitation in modern digital identity infrastructure: systems can authenticate keys, but they cannot encode authority or mandate.

This essay explores why autonomous systems require a legal identity layer and how the SILT architecture attempts to address that gap.

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