Victor Hernandez Guzman proposes agent kill switch test

The author argues that traditional non-human identity frameworks fail when applied to autonomous AI agents that rely on non-deterministic reasoning, dynamic tool selection, and multi-hop delegation. Treating agents as standard workloads risks catastrophic security vulnerabilities such as excessive agency and scope escalation mid-session. To prevent these risks, the author proposes a three-part threshold test to identify when an entity requires a dedicated, composite agent identity model. Open article →