Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases

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To get ahead of this problem, American Express is introducing a new framework designed to capture and authenticate a customer’s purchase intent before an AI agent completes the transaction. In part, that’s because consumers have signaled they’re open to trying agentic commerce. Then an Intent ID, a unique identifier representing the intent, is created, along with a Proof of Intent Token, which includes the customer’s high-level constraints.

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