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Give people the right to send secure, revocable AI agents across banks, health care, benefits, schools, utilities, taxes, licensing, and public services, with identity, scoped authority, audit logs, liability, fraud controls, and human fallback.
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The Innovation Party supports a national right to send a user-authorized AI agent across public services and high-impact regulated sectors. The right should include agent identity, scoped authorization, purpose limits, revocation, consent receipts, audit logs, liability allocation, anti-fraud controls, API access, public conformance tests, and human fallback. The position is procedural and infrastructural. It does not grant legal personhood to AI or replace professional licensing. It makes delegated software a lawful, secure, and revocable way for people to exercise rights they already have.
The narrow claim is that a person should be able to delegate routine digital action without giving away their password, surrendering permanent access, or depending on each institution's private portal design. Rights that cannot be exercised through modern tools become weaker as institutions automate around them. A delegated-agent standard preserves personal agency by making consent, authority, auditability, and accountability operational.
Primary - Privacy, Security, and Trust. The issue is built around consent, scope, revocation, data minimization, audit logs, identity assurance, and fraud controls.
Secondary - Access to Information and Connectivity. Agent access turns data rights, public-service portals, health records, benefits rules, and financial records into usable paths rather than disconnected portals.
Secondary - Inclusive Growth and Economic Development. Ordinary workers, families, small businesses, and public-interest organizations should get practical AI leverage, not only large firms with private automation teams.
Secondary - Research, Innovation, and Collaboration. NIST, NCCoE, CMS, CFPB, Login.gov, legal aid, state digital services, standards bodies, and civic technologists all have pieces of the needed infrastructure.
Democrats often support consumer protection, data privacy, benefits access, legal aid, health interoperability, and AI accountability. Their weakness is that the user is often still imagined as someone navigating agency portals one at a time, not as a person empowered to send a secure representative across systems. Republicans often support consumer choice, competition, financial innovation, anti-bureaucracy reforms, and skepticism of centralized identity systems. Their weakness is that they can leave the practical power with firms while resisting the public standards that make exit and delegation work for ordinary people.
The Innovation Party's delta is to join frontier adoption with portable citizen power. Build the agent economy. Set the standards. Let firms innovate. Then make sure people can send their own authorized agents into the systems that already use automation against them.
The strongest objection is that this could become fraud infrastructure. If agents can act at machine speed across banks, benefits, health care, utilities, and courts, a compromised agent could drain accounts, expose medical records, file false claims, harass institutions, or trap vulnerable people inside coerced consent. A second objection is that public agencies and small providers already struggle to maintain ordinary systems; forcing them to accept agent traffic could add cost, attack surface, and service risk.
Those objections are strong enough to shape the policy. The right should not be implemented as permissionless bot access. It should be implemented as verified delegation: agent identity, least-privilege scopes, revocation, receipts, audit trails, anomaly detection, high-risk confirmation, incident reporting, account recovery, and human fallback. It should be phased where public rails already exist and expanded only when conformance tests and fraud controls work. The position holds because the alternative is not a low-risk human world. It is a world where institutions automate first and citizens are left with passwords, PDFs, and exhaustion.
Federal agencies, regulated firms, standards bodies, and technology vendors bear the cost of APIs, identity integration, conformance testing, audit logs, fraud monitoring, and incident response. Agent providers bear the cost of security engineering, user support, model evaluation, explainability, and liability coverage. Legal aid and public-interest organizations bear implementation burdens if the public option is underfunded. Small providers may need phased deadlines, safe harbors, shared tooling, or exemptions until common infrastructure reduces cost.
Citizens also bear risk if the design is wrong: coerced authorization, confusing consent, digital exclusion, mistaken filings, lost privacy, or overreliance on automated advice. Those costs are acceptable only if the policy includes plain-language consent, revocation, paper alternatives, human escalation, disability and language access, and limits on high-stakes autonomous action.
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