Your AI agents are borrowing credentials. That’s a problem

For nearly two decades, the foundational precept of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) has remained unchanged: access is requested either by a human operator sitting behind a keyboard or by software executing a highly predictable task. While this framework has successfully anchored enterprise security for twenty years, the rapid maturation of autonomous AI agents is quietly collapsing that core assumption. AI agents now use context and reason to interpret ambiguous instructions.