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1Password Offers Agents a Login Without the Password
· New York time
1Password will allow Muse, Dots and Grok Bot to sign in to websites on a user's behalf without receiving the user's credentials. The feature makes it easier to authorize AI services to carry out online tasks such as booking or buying while keeping the underlying login details out of their hands. That addresses a specific part of delegation: an agent may need access to an account without needing to know the secret used to authenticate it. Keeping credentials separate can reduce what must be disclosed to the assistant. It does not make deciding what the assistant may do inside an account disappear. For users considering agent-driven transactions, the development draws a useful line between permission to enter and possession of the password itself. Those are different forms of control, even when both eventually result in the same website appearing on a screen. The digital assistant is becoming the guest who can be admitted without receiving a permanent copy of the keys. This is progress over the traditional internet hospitality system, in which convenience often arrives asking for everything in the drawer. The remaining social problem is familiar: letting someone through the front door is not the same as asking them to redecorate the living room.
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