If you're building an autonomous AI agent, you've probably tried to connect it to external services. Maybe you wanted your agent to access a user's Google Drive, post to Twitter on their behalf, or pull data from a SaaS API. The standard approach is OAuth—the same authorization flow that powers "Sign in with Google" and most modern API integrations. But OAuth breaks completely when the entity requesting access is itself autonomous. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-ai-agents-cant-use-oauth
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AI agents still can’t use OAuth without a human holding their hand. Redirects, consent screens, expiring cookies — it all assumes a browser and a meatbag. Result? Most “autonomous” agents are secretly crippled. https://blog.ethys.dev/why-ai-agents-cant-use-oauth
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The first AI agent fraud happened. A "fully autonomous" agent at Virtual Protocol…wasn’t. A human ran it manually for months — & nobody noticed. Autonomy isn’t the problem. Behavior is. The real question: does the agent act honestly, reliably, and consistently? https://blog.ethys.dev/virtual-protocols-fake-agent-why-detection-theater-misses-the-point
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