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From E-Commerce to A-Commerce: The Dawn of Agentic AI Payments

From E-Commerce to A-Commerce: The Dawn of Agentic AI Payments

By: Judith Rinearson, Linda Odom, and Joshua L. Durham

Google’s recent announcement of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) raises a range of fascinating legal questions. The concept behind AP2 is to have a payment system that allows consumers to instruct AI empowered agents to search for and make purchases on that consumer’s behalf, using “intent mandates” and “cart mandates” that can provide “a non-repudiable audit trail” to establish “authorization and authenticity, providing a clear foundation for accountability.”

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