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Michal argues it is important to give AI agents “limited, controllable and auditable authorizations,” instead of simply trusting
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The council's proposal would let an agent's ID specify exactly what it's cleared to do—Michal lists actions like view a record, draft a document, make a payment up to a fixed amount—rather than inherit blanket access to everything its owner can reach.
Key facts
- By December 2024, Estonia had moved 100% of government services online, which is also key for a proper integration of agentic AI in the state's bureaucracy
- Estonia's parliament declared internet access a universal service in 2000, decades before most governments treated broadband as a right
- Estonia wants to give artificial intelligence its own government ID
- Those agents are already acting inside government systems, which is exactly the kind of access the new ID is meant to scope down
Summary
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal approved an Eesti.ai advisory council proposal on June 17 to create an "AI personal identification code.” The ID would let an agent's permissions be scoped to specific actions instead of granting full access to a person's accounts and services. Michal gave no start date for the system and no detail on how liability would work when an agent with its own ID makes a costly mistake. Michal framed it as a fix for a problem that already exists: an agent that books a flight, files taxes, or edits a document today usually has to borrow its owner's entire digital identity to do it. The reporter gave their approval to the council’s proposal that Estonia become the first country in the world to create a digital identity for AI agents, an AI personal identification code.