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Should organisations treat AI agents like human users in IAM?

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By NHI Mgmt Group Editorial Team Updated June 7, 2026 Domain: Agentic AI & Autonomous Identity

No. Human IAM assumes a person logs in, works within a session, and can be reviewed later as a stable identity holder. Agents can act at machine speed, across multiple systems, and with changing runtime context, so they need identity governance built around execution and delegation rather than human authentication patterns.

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Reviewed and updated by the NHIMG editorial team on June 7, 2026.
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