Cameron D'Ambrosi on Identity in the Age of AI Agents

In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Cameron D’Ambrosi about the growing impact of AI agents on digital identity, security, and online trust.Cameron is FaceTec’s Head of Strategic Partnerships for North America and the European Union. His career has spanned financial regulation, KYC and AML consulting, and digital identity strategy, including his time as a founding member of Liminal and host of more than 350 episodes of the State of Identity podcast.Drawing on that experience, Cameron discusses why AI agents are creating new urgency around long-standing identity challenges. The conversation covers the emerging concept of Know Your Agent, the complicated questions of ownership and authorization that arise when agents act on behalf of people and businesses, and the risks of giving autonomous systems broad or standing permissions. The group also explores AI impersonation, zero-trust security, just-in-time access, agentic commerce, and the role biometric liveness detection could play in confirming that a real human is behind a high-risk transaction.