Ledger promotes Rogers to 'preserve human agency' in AI era
The maker of the popular hardware wallet said Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers would assume a new role as chief human agency officer, acknowledging the risks and opportunities "as AI agents begin to act on behalf of individuals."
The move came as part of a major roadmap announcement where the company will "lay the foundations for a secure agentic economy where AI agents can operate autonomously while humans stay in control," according to a thread on X by Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier.
In a related post, Ledger noted that "one rogue agent can drain your funds in seconds."
Rogers, an Indiana University computer science grad who built the first website for the Beastie Boys and later worked at Yahoo, Beats, Apple and LVMH, has been warning since at least October about the risks of a "future where we give agents our logins, credit cards and identities."
Rogers is also an avid user of the technology, famously letting his own AI agent, Jacques Cousteau, speak directly to the audience at the SXSW festival in March, during an onstage interview with Distro DeAI News founding editor Bradley Keoun.