C:\>DIR Global ‘Agentic Regulator’ Hackathon

Know Your Agent (KY-A), Digital Verification & Digital Public Infrastructure

Develop agentic solutions, protocols or infrastructure to authenticate and verify AI agents and detect autonomous exploitation of digital public infrastructure layers (e.g. digital ID & data sharing).

Context for the Problem Space

AI agents are increasingly connecting to national digital public infrastructure (DPI), driving the emergence of "Know Your Agent" (KY-A) frameworks to verify agent identities and bind them to accountable humans.

Risks include but are not limited to: 

  • Delegation gaps where agents exceed the authorised scope of user intent

  • GenAI exploiting biometric onboarding to create synthetic agent identities

  • Fragmented, proprietary standards threatening interoperability and cross-border supervision

  • Unresolved liability and consumer redress, as autonomous agents lack legal identity

Potential Solution Areas

Bridging the Delegation Gap

How can authorities verify that an autonomous AI agent is acting strictly within its human owner's authorized scope to prevent unintended transactions?

Securing Agent Identity

How can regulators protect digital infrastructure from unverified AI agent swarms and synthetic identities exploiting biometric onboarding?

Allocating Agent Liability

How can authorities establish clear frameworks for liability and consumer redress when non-human autonomous agents cause harm?

Modernizing Data Sharing

How can authorities enable secure, dynamic data-sharing frameworks (such as open banking/data) to rapidly pool intelligence on AI threats without violating privacy laws?

Illustrative Hackathon Prototypes

‍KYA Standards Sandbox Copilot

An evaluation tool that tracks the agent standards landscape and simulates how candidate "Know Your Agent" rules would perform against legitimate and malicious agents.

Cross-Border Agent Trust Framework

A federated coordination layer enabling authorities to mutually recognise agent credentials and securely share revocation lists across jurisdictions without exposing raw personal data.

Age Verification for Online Safety

Address emerging issues like agents conducting age verification for online safety.

Cryptographic Delegation Verifier:

An audit tool that continuously validates the cryptographic lineage of consent across multi-agent handoffs, ensuring any sub-agent has mathematically verifiable proof of scoped human authorisation.

Agentic DPI Risk Assessment Tool

A simulation agent that monitors liquidity flows across DPI rails to calculate the systemic economic blast radius and value-at-risk (VaR) caused by infrastructure downtime or agent exploits.

Reference & Resources

Contact

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