Mastercard’s New Agent Detection Score Asks a Question No Card Network Has Asked Before

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Can a payment network actually distinguish between a human shopper and a piece of autonomous software? Mastercard is attempting to answer this with a new intelligence layer in its Agent Pay Trust Framework, which introduces an AI-agent initiation probability score. While the industry has spent the last year obsessing over the Chain of Trust and the mechanics of Credential Convergence , the fundamental problem remains: knowing who an agent is matters little if you cannot reliably detect its presence in the first place.
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