1Password extends enterprise credential management beyond humans to AI agents

As AI agents start to take over business processes that have typically been the responsibility of humans, many of those agents will have to sign in to multiple systems to complete their tasks securely. To help enterprises scalably manage that challenge to modern credential management best practices, 1Password -- a company widely known for its password management solution -- has announced the addition of agentic AI security capabilities to its Extended Access Management Platform (XAM). During the past year, there's been lots of talk about AI potentially taking over many jobs. Bill Gates recently predicted that only three jobs will survive: biologists, energy experts, and the coders of AI itself (he also told Jimmy Fallon that we won't want to watch computers play baseball). However, given the extent to which most humans have to log in to multiple systems to get their jobs done -- sometimes even for just one task -- who will manage the credentials securely for those AI agents as they start to proliferate?