Let's talk about the AI your company is already running that nobody approved. Picture the person who fixed a problem on a Tuesday afternoon. A report due, three meetings they were already late for, and a system that made them move numbers between two spreadsheets by hand. So they pasted the messy part into a chatbot, dropped the result into a tool that drafted the email, and got home on time. Nobody approved it. It worked. That's how AI actually enters most companies. Not through…This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the ai nobody approved — where AI, identity, proof, consent, and power collide.

Let's talk about the fourteen days left to say something about what your AI agent is allowed to buy — and who's actually using them. At the start of this month, EMVCo — the body that writes the card specifications nearly every payment terminal on earth settles on — published a framework for card-based agentic payments and opened it for industry feedback. That window closes on the thirtieth of September. Same fortnight: FIDO drafting interoperability for the same territory, Anthropic shipping commerce-agent blueprints with Shopify,…

This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the fourteen days that decide what your agent is allowed to buy — where AI, identity, proof, consent, and power collide.