OpenSSF Podcast Features Angie Jones on Agentic AI Foundation and Future of AI Agents
The OpenSSF podcast, 'What’s in the SOSS?', recently featured Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). Jones discussed the AAIF's mission to provide a neutral home for critical agentic AI technologies and standards. The foundation was established out of a necessity to govern rapidly innovating AI systems, which were becoming too significant to be solely owned by individual companies. Key technologies under the AAIF's purview include the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agents MD, Goose (an open-source AI agent), and Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. These initiatives aim to foster collaboration among competing companies to define common standards and rules for agentic systems, particularly in areas like agentic commerce, where complex issues such as authorization and identity need standardized solutions. The podcast also highlighted upcoming events, AgentCon and MCPCon North America, scheduled for October 22nd and 23rd in San Jose, where the OpenSSF community will par...
