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iProov’s experimental HAPS protocol aims to close governance gaps for AI agents

Biometric Update · September 18, 2026
iProov’s experimental HAPS protocol aims to close governance gaps for AI agents
Source:Biometric Update

Summary

iProov has published HAPS, an experimental, open-source specification intended to ensure that AI agents obtain verifiable human approval before performing sensitive or critical actions. The protocol links proof of human presence and approval to a specific machine-readable action, addressing risks such as prompt injection, excessive goal-seeking, and misuse of delegated credentials. HAPS is proof-agnostic, although iProov’s internal implementation uses biometric liveness. The GitHub release includes a partial Rust implementation and test vectors, and the company is seeking industry review and independent implementations.

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Biblical Context

No strong biblical connection is identified in the supplied article. The subject is a technical proposal for governing AI agents and verifying human approval, but the article does not substantially address a specifically biblical doctrine, event, moral question, or prophetic subject. Broad themes such as responsibility or accountability would be too general to justify a Scripture-based analysis here.

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