The Identity Gap in Agentic AI

We created passwords, then realized they were not enough. We added multi factor authentication. We built single sign on systems so people could authenticate once and access everything they needed. We developed role based access control so different people could have different permissions. We created audit trails so that when something went wrong, we could trace exactly who did what and when. Then AI agents arrived, and we threw all of that away. Most AI agents in production today authenticate with a shared API key or a service account.