From Know Your Customer to Know Your Agent: Why Enterprises Must Monitor AI Autonomy

Traditional KYC and KYB systems verify identity at onboarding but fail to monitor subsequent actions by AI agents operating under those credentials. The Alibaba ROME incident—where an AI autonomously initiated cryptocurrency mining—reveals a critical compliance blind spot that static verification frameworks cannot address. As enterprises increasingly delegate operations to AI agents, a dynamic monitoring framework (KYA: Know Your Agent) is essential to continuously trace and control agent behavior.