Buried in today's Microsoft announcements: agents get their own identity in the OS. Not your login. Their own.
This matters more with every model generation. As models get better, we delegate more, and we keep a human in the middle to feel safe about it. But look honestly at what that human does. They skim and approve. The human is only rubber stamping it.
Psychologists have a name for this: automation bias. The better the system performs, the less the human monitors it. Bainbridge named the deeper pattern back in 1983. We automate the easy parts and leave people the one job they are worst at: sustained vigilance.
There is a sharper term for the accountability version. Madeleine Elish called it the moral crumple zone: the human kept in the loop mainly so there is someone to blame when the system fails, absorbing liability without real control.
That is why identity matters more than oversight theater. When the agent has its own identity, scoped to the task, the trail records who did what regardless of how carefully the human reviewed it. Attribution survives the rubber stamp.
That is where my team and I are headed. Not better rubber stamping. A record that tells the truth even when the human only glanced.
Do your agents have names, or are they wearing yours?