1Password says it can fix login security for AI browser agents

1Password’s browser hold fills successful your passwords automatically erstwhile you browse, and present the institution has built a akin instrumentality for AI bots browsing the web connected your behalf, but for a precise antithetic reason.

AI tools and browsers built connected Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are progressively utilizing AI agents to browse the web, publication tickets, and marque Spotify playlists for you, and dissimilar your hazard of forgetting a unsocial password, an AI bot risks remembering it and causing a breach later. 1Password’s hole for that imaginable risk, a caller Secure Agentic Autofill diagnostic that “injects the credentials straight into the browser if, and lone if, the quality approves the access.”

With the tool, erstwhile a browser AI cause determines that it needs login credentials, “the cause informs 1Password that a credential is being requested,” 1Password says. “At that point, 1Password identifies the due credentials, requests support from the idiosyncratic via a human-in-the-loop workflow.” To o.k. a request, a quality authenticates the petition with thing similar Touch ID connected their Mac, and 1Password’s instrumentality uses an “end-to-end encrypted channel” betwixt its hold successful the browser operated by the AI cause and the approving instrumentality to input the credentials. The AI cause and LLM, according to 1Password, ne'er spot the existent credentials arsenic a result.

Initially, Secure Agentic Autofill is disposable starting contiguous successful aboriginal entree via Browserbase, which builds a browser and tools specifically designed for AI agents.