Trusted AI Agents Must Be Anchored in Silicon
Source: The Manila times
Published on: 2026-10-09 15:37
As AI agents begin acting on users' behalf, eMemory's subsidiary, PUFsecurity, believes that device identity, attestation and protected on-chip state will decide how far they can be trusted SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The first wave of generative AI answered questions and produced content, and a person still decided what to do with it. Agentic AI goes further: AI agents book travel, send email, fill in forms and make purchases [1], often while the user is busy with something else. PUFsecurity, a subsidiary of eMemory Technology, believes this shift changes where trust has to come from. In a new technical perspective, "Building Trusted AI Agents from the Silicon Root of Trust," the company explains that the security of these agents ultimately rests on hardware Roots of Trust in the chips that run them. Agents raise the stakes A chatbot produces content, and a person ...
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