For more than 60 years, ever since famed computer scientist Fernando Corbató pioneered the first username and password verification at MIT, digital identity and authentication has largely been a human litmus test—through passwords, biometrics, or other security tokens, prove you are who you say you are.
But with the rapid rise of agentic AI and emerging artificial general intelligence (AGI), people are no longer the only players on our digital playgrounds. By the end of this year, Gartner predicts nearly every enterprise application will have embedded AI assistants and by 2026, 40% of these applications will be integrated with true task-specific agents.
