Today on Forbes, All Rise, Internet Court for AI Agents is in session.

In the not too distant future, everyone will be using so-called AI agents.

Connected to the cloud, they will live inside your mobile phone ready to assist in whatever tasks you need accomplished,

from replying to emails and booking

flights to tax loss harvesting in your portfolio. Robin Hood's customers now use AI agents to

analyze stock market gyrations and make autonomous trades based on custom instructions.

SAP's Jewel helps its enterprise customers analyze inventory, source the best suppliers,

and procure goods.

Shopping agents operating at machine speed, like Amazon's Buy for Me, will scan the web for

the best deals, negotiate terms with agents representing the seller, establish delivery windows, and make purchases.

Well-known AI and crypto companies, from Anthropic and Open AI to Coinbase and Circle,

are already racing to make this bot-driven future a reality for all. But what happens when

the couch your agent ordered arrives in

the wrong color, or gets delivered two weeks late, or damaged in a way the seller insists

happened after delivery? This is a potentially expensive and perhaps unavoidable problem

hiding inside the grand vision of agentic commerce. Software may already be

able to shop, bargain, hire, and pay on behalf of humans and businesses, but AI hallucinates,

and commerce has never been only about the exchange of money. Mishaps are inevitable.

David Rudor is the CEO and co-founder of the Gen Layer Foundation, a Cayman Islands-based

entity that helps run a new blockchain called Gen Layer and its main application,

Internet Court, which is designed to adjudicate agentic disputes.

He says, quote, agentic commerce is reaching a critical turning point, and we're not prepared for the potential

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