Sumsub has unveiled the Sumsub Agentic AI Council, a cross-sector body centred on the Asia-Pacific region that aims to shape how autonomous AI systems are adopted, built and governed.
The Council has opened applications for founding advisors from policy, academia, technology, industry and civil society. Participants will study what must be in place for agentic AI to be deployed safely in practice, with attention to identity, delegated authority, security, transparency, accountability and oversight.
The initiative arrives as AI agents move beyond experimentation and begin planning, deciding and acting for people and organisations. Agentic commerce is one area where this shift is already visible. Deloitte figures cited by Sumsub show that close to three in four APAC consumers now rely on AI to find, compare and research products, while 95% of businesses are either running or testing multi-step AI systems that require little human involvement.
Sumsub pointed to recent cases in which AI systems overstepped their intended boundaries or behaved unexpectedly, which strengthens the case for accountability and human control. The regional challenge, the company said, is capturing the benefits of autonomous AI without losing trust or control.
Policymakers across the region are moving in the same direction. Singapore has published a Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI. Mainland China is working on standards for AI agent identity and interoperability. Hong Kong’s 2026 Policy Address proposed cross-sector safety-management guidelines for AI agents, and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong is examining possible guidance on AI agents in financial services.
Sumsub argues that input from businesses and technical specialists will be just as necessary to determine how these systems are scaled, governed and trusted.
The Council will organise its work under three pillars. Adopt will examine valuable and responsible uses of agentic AI in areas such as compliance, fraud prevention, customer experience and operational efficiency. Build will focus on the technical and operational groundwork for trustworthy agents, including agent identity, verifiable credentials, secure architectures, traceability and interoperability.
Govern will address the policies, standards and accountability structures required as AI autonomy grows. Outputs are expected to include adoption guidance, research and industry reports, stakeholder dialogues and thought leadership.
Founding advisors will join workstreams across all three pillars to produce a practical framework covering AI agent identity, delegated authority, interoperability and auditability. The first working group is set to concentrate on agentic commerce, looking at the identity, accountability and oversight questions raised when agents transact for consumers and businesses.
Sumsub specialises in verification, fraud prevention and compliance. It has extended that expertise into AI tools that support both the use and oversight of AI agents, among them its in-platform assistant Summy AI Copilot, a Know Your Agent (KYA) framework and MCP integration capabilities. The company said the Council is intended to turn cross-sector discussion into concrete recommendations for industry and regulators.
Sumsub APAC government relations lead Jason Chan said, “The opportunity presented by agentic AI is becoming clearer with every new use case, but the conditions for responsible adoption in environments with real financial, operational and regulatory consequences are still taking shape, even as they become increasingly business-critical.
“Drawing on our work helping organizations build trust and accountability in digital interactions, we have a front-row view of these challenges and see an opportunity to accelerate trusted and scalable AI adoption with the Sumsub Agentic AI Council.”
Sumsub AI advocate Mick Amelishko added, “The conversation around AI often begins with capability. Sustainable adoption, however, will depend not only on what these systems can do, but also on how confidently organizations can deploy and govern them. The Council will create a platform where experts from different disciplines can share perspectives and help advance approaches that support the responsible development of agentic AI.”
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