Your AI agents are borrowing credentials. That’s a problem

Autonomous AI agents are breaking traditional IAM assumptions by acting across systems, borrowing human credentials, and creating major audit, compliance, and incident-response blind spots. For CIOs and IT leaders, the strategic implication is that AI agents should no longer be treated like users or legacy service accounts; they need a separate identity model with least privilege, continuous governance, and attributable audit trails to prevent security and operational disruption.