Why Trust Is The New Currency In The Agentic Era - And What It's Worth
CIO, Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Enterprise trust must evolve to meet the unique security challenges of autonomous AI agents.
The World Economic Forum calls trust 'the new currency' in the agentic AI era and that's not just a metaphor: An increase of 10 percentage points in trust directly translates to 0.5% GDP growth. But here's what makes trust as a currency fundamentally different from any that's come before: you can't borrow it, you can't buy it and you can't simply mint more.