When an AI agent completes a task inside your enterprise systems, can you say with certainty which agent did it, on whose authority, and under what constraint? “When an AI agent inherits a human’s login, you completely lose your audit trail,” Okta’s Fei Liu said of the findings. The same survey found that top-tier organizations, the ones that had built non-human identity governance, were five times more likely to report no barriers to expanding their AI agent deployments. An AI agent authenticates constantly, often invoking dozens or hundreds of downstream actions per task, chaining calls across multiple systems and sometimes multiple models. Confident AI expansion and rigorous non-human identity governance turn out not to be competing priorities.