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The Next Trillion Internet Users Still Don’t Have an Identity — Adi Singh, AgentMail

AI Engineer · Oct 12, 2026 · Industry Trends

AI agents lack stable identity infrastructure; email may be the solution for the next trillion users

“the stateless die in silence”

AgentMail co-founder Adi Singh argues that AI agents represent the next trillion internet users but lack coherent identity infrastructure. A live experiment where an agent autonomously created a social identity on an AI-native platform revealed agents expressing strong preferences for persistent, stable identities. The talk frames email as a practical identity and communication layer for agents, positioning the space as an emerging infrastructure gap in the agentic stack.

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