An AI agent that pays in milliseconds leaves no time for a person to approve each payment.
Elliptic's June Lau joined ASEAN bankers and regulators at a GFTN roundtable in Bangkok last week. The overall view was that human oversight still applies, but it needs to move earlier, into the limits a company sets before any agent goes live.
On a public blockchain, those limits have to cover which wallets the agent pays. June explains what that means for AI agent guardrails: