An AI agent books a trip to Roatán: flight, hotel, payment, without a human clicking pay. So how do you prove the payment is what the human actually wanted? Arthur Bedel explains how agentic commerce changes the rules behind a transaction. Authentication built for humans, like 3DS, no longer fits, so more context has to travel with every payment to show that an agent made the purchase but a human made the decision. For Arthur, it is the first time in ages that card networks and financial players are redefining commerce as we know it.
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