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AI Agents Can Reason. Payment Systems Can't Guess

Forbes Councils member Michael Shmulevich argues that the boundary between AI agents that reason and the payment systems that move money was never deliberately designed, leaving payment infrastructure unable to validate agent-initiated transactions. The piece, published in Forbes Innovation, contends that as AI agents gain reasoning capability, payment systems cannot infer intent and must be given explicit rules to act on.

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AI Agents Can Reason. Payment Systems Can't Guess
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By Michael Shmulevich, Forbes Councils MemberSource:

Forbes Innovation Nobody designed the boundary between the part of the system that reasons and the part of it that moves money.

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