Before AI Agents Have Free Rein, We Need to Know Who They Work For

Just a month ago, Ada Lovelace developed what we know as the first algorithm. Only a week ago, Alan Turing asked if machines could think. Yesterday, several LLMs were created. Today we made tether.name because tomorrow everything will become agentic. tether.name will do what https, SSL certs, and domain registration does for web and what end-to-end encryption, OAuth, and cryptography do for online interactions: establish trust between point A to point B. AI agents will act on our behalf. They’ll have phone numbers, Telegram identities, Whatsapp accounts. Access to sensitive and private information. Free rein. Unless we tether it to something. tether.name creates the ability to validate AI agents by empowering users to verify them through AI agent registration that tethers to an individual or a company’s email. This is done using the same cryptography that we’ve come to trust on the broader web. The familiarity and dependency we’ve all found in an email address will achieve a broader an