Control: Estonia wants to assign each AI agent its own ID number

In recent years, Estonia has become a pioneer in digitalization. Most administrative services are now accessible online. According to a study by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 90 percent of the Baltic country’s residents use national e-IDs to access government services.

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Estonia: Digitalization and AI

Estonia is also putting pressure on AI. In the education sector, the state has distributed ChatGPT licenses to teachers and students, as the FAZ writes. According to publicplan.de, AI is also used specifically in administration.

The fact that almost all residents in Estonia and, through the e-Residency program, foreign entrepreneurs use their digital identities for services such as official and medical visits as well as signing documents is now becoming a problem given the increasing spread of AI agents.

AI agents use people’s IDs

As The Next Web reports, AI agents are currently unable to legally sign documents on their own or take responsibility for their actions. For many tasks, they would therefore have to use the ID of a natural person – with correspondingly few control options and restrictions.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal wants to close this gap by giving AI agents their own ID number. Michal has now announced corresponding plans. The idea is that the AI ​​agents’ activities can be restricted, monitored and recorded.

Restrict access of AI agents

“It shouldn’t be the case that a person has to grant their AI agent access to all of their rights, services and data,” says Michal via

It must also be clear on whose behalf an AI carries out digital actions. Michal did not mention a possible start date for issuing the ID numbers. It is also not yet clear what happens if an AI agent with its own ID makes a mistake.