Should AI agents get their own payment cards? Banks block, card issuers open up
The post contrasts US banks blocking outside AI agents from accounts with card issuers like Oobit, Moonpay, Robinhood, Mastercard and Visa giving agents such as Grok, Muse, Dots and Claude limited cards.
Would you give your AI agent its own card? Big US banks are saying no. They are blocking outside AI agents from customer accounts The card side is going the other way: - @oobit on @raincards : Grok, Muse and Dots agents pay in stablecoins with a single-use card for each purchase you approve - @moonpay PayBox: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok pay from your own wallet, with a one-time card locked to the merchant and amount - @RobinhoodApp : a virtual credit card for your agent, with hard limits, approvals and 3% back - @Mastercard opened Agent Pay for Machines to developers after pilots with Coinbase and Cloudflare - @Visa has AI agents paying approved business invoices in a pilot with BILL and Billtrust What would you actually let an AI agent buy for you?