The Human Root of Trust – public domain framework for agent accountability

I've spent my career at the intersection of identity, trust, and distributed systems. The thing I keep thinking about: every digital system we've built assumes a human is on the other end. Bank accounts, contracts, API keys — all designed around human singularity. That assumption has already broken. AI agents are transacting, communicating, and signing contracts autonomously — passing identity checks designed for people, with no human visibly in the loop. The Human Root of Trust is my attempt to name the problem and sketch the architecture: three pillars (proof of humanity, hardware-rooted device identity, action attestation), a six-step trust chain from human principal to cryptographic receipt, and two implementation paths. It's dedicated to the public domain. No patent. No product. No ask except that whoever picks this up carries the principle forward. https://humanrootoftrust.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100935 Points: 4 # Comments: 0