Agent payments, can you do my shopping? | The Agent Factory Podcast

The podcast explores the challenges of using AI agents for commerce and introduces the Agent Payment Protocols, designed to create a secure framework for AI-driven transactions. It addresses key issues such as authorization, agent error, and accountability in agentic commerce. The discussion highlights a role-based ecosystem involving shopping agents, merchant endpoints, credential providers, and merchant payment processors, all secured by verifiable credentials. Prateek Dudeja, a product manager from the Agent Payment Protocol team, explains how these protocols add a trust layer to existing payment systems, ensuring secure communication between agents, merchants, and payment partners. A reference implementation demonstrates a user interacting with a shopping agent to make a purchase, emphasizing the importance of user authorization and verifiable proof of intent.