statements ยท statement-BATCH-2026-006-015

source-BATCH-2026-005-004

The report warns that agents which appear identical to users leave investigators unable to separate delegated action from direct user action.

Statement context

Statement type
warning
Exact source locator
PDF file p. 3 (document p. 2), Executive Summary, "User impersonation by agents", October 2025 version
Source date
Unknown
Role at source time
joint authors of the OpenID Foundation report
Evidence character
author interpretation
Scope
Identity and accountability in agent access to external services.

Recorded uncertainty: Conceptual risk analysis; no incidence rate is reported.

Indexed source: Identity Management for Agentic AI

Evidence lineage and transparency

Relationship fieldLinked identifiers
topic idstopic-ai-agents, topic-ai-governance, topic-cybersecurity, topic-non-human-identity

Machine review: machine checked. Human review: approved. Workflow: published.

Complete structured record
statement id
statement-BATCH-2026-006-015
source id
source-BATCH-2026-005-004
person id
Unknown
institutional author
South et al. (joint report authors)
book edition id
Unknown
speaker role at source time
joint authors of the OpenID Foundation report
organization at source time
OpenID Foundation
statement type
warning
neutral paraphrase
The report warns that agents which appear identical to users leave investigators unable to separate delegated action from direct user action.
direct quote
Unknown
direct quote rights note
Unknown
exact locator
PDF file p. 3 (document p. 2), Executive Summary, "User impersonation by agents", October 2025 version
locator type
pdf_page
source date
Unknown
topic ids
topic-ai-agents, topic-ai-governance, topic-cybersecurity, topic-non-human-identity
executive role context
role-ciso, role-cio, role-cto, role-general-counsel, role-board-director
industry context
cross-sector
geographic context
global technology standards context
evidence character
author_interpretation
factual verification status
attribution_verified
statement scope
Identity and accountability in agent access to external services.
uncertainty
Conceptual risk analysis; no incidence rate is reported.
extraction method
Machine-assisted close reading of the exact verified source version; original neutral paraphrase; human review pending.
machine extraction confidence
0.94
independent agent review status
not_started
publication status
published
workflow status
published
machine review status
machine_checked
human review status
approved
reviewed by
Murray Newlands
reviewed at
2026-08-16T23:17:22Z
Provenance and revision history
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      "notes": "Source eligibility inherited from source-BATCH-2026-005-004; human attribution and publication review pending."
    }
  ],
  "revision_history": [
    {
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      "changed_by": "Murray Newlands",
      "summary": "Approved for the governed-identities pilot release under the exact scope, exclusions, rights treatment, and limitations recorded in issue #18.",
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Open machine-readable record