Trust me, I'm an Agent

2.20pm – 2.50pm, 11 November 2025 ‐ 30 mins

Simon Thompson, Independent Consultant

To realise the benefit of Agent based systems users will have to trust them to act on their behalf, but some agents will be incompetent, and others will be malicious. How can users and Agents sort helpful collaborators from dangerous attackers? How are ideas of Trust different from ideas of Identity and Security? What kind of solutions exist for creating trust and running trust infrastructures?