The FIDO Alliance announced two new initiatives to develop standards for AI agent interactions and commerce, including a Payments Technical Working Group that will draw from Google’s Agent Payments Protocol and Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent framework. Google donated its AP2 protocol, originally introduced in September, to keep it platform-agnostic and community-led, while Mastercard’s framework was announced in March as an open-source standard for agentic commerce, and a separate Agentic Authentication Technical Working Group will focus on how users can securely delegate actions to AI agents. FIDO Alliance Executive Director Andrew Shikiar said in a press release that “to scale this safely, people need to trust that these actions are secure, authorized and truly reflect their intent.”
