3 AImigo · S1E10
Agents with Payment Authority: Would We Trust AI with Our Money?
How can we delegate an entire purchase to an agent? The co-hosts begin with family groceries, Vinted searches, and unnecessary extension leads in an order. Discovery, selection, negotiation, order approval, and payment require different permissions; a budget cannot replace knowledge of personal preferences.
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The discussion connects Checkout and Payment in AP2 to real purchases: current prices and stock, confirmation, refunds, and merchant incentives. The participants consider bounded marketing expenditure, payment intermediaries, and why shops and banks want to retain the customer interface.
The closing discussion covers personalization, proactive shopping, and responsibility for an assistant’s actions. Protection from fraud remains a hypothesis because agents can also be manipulated. Broad adoption depends on convenience, economics, and control over the consequences of mistakes.