AI Engineer YouTube · June 6, 2026

Building safe Payment Infrastructure for the autonomous economy — Steve Kaliski, Stripe

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Why it matters

Agents are evolving from calling free APIs to executing real transactions, creating a new challenge: how do we let software spend money autonomously without catastrophic risk? This talk presents Stripe's approach to solving the dual problems of secure credential transmission and making businesses discoverable to agents

My takeaway: Agents are evolving from calling free APIs to executing real transactions, creating a new challenge: how do we let software spend money autonomously without catastrophic risk? This talk presents Stripe's approach to solving the dual problems of secure credential transmission and making businesses discoverable to agents