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In my 2018 post entitled Upside Of Brexit For IT Industry, I predicted that Brexit will be good for UK and Tech. Nice to know that my post has aged well even after 7 years. 

20% of 300 employees is 60 employees. Even assuming an average TC of $1M per employee, laying off 20% of workforce would result in a savings of $60M, which is many orders of magnitude lower than AI investments of tens of billions of dollars. With all those billions of dollars sloshing around, one would think that SoftBank would hire better spin doctors. Alas, one thought wrong. 

@Steven Hatton:

Your OP says "every transaction". Every transaction under a Recurring Payments mandate is NOT authorized by the payor. Only the mandate is authorized upfront and only once. Recurring payments under the pre-approved mandate happen without any human intervention. 

While your questions about AI Agents are totally valid, I have a feeling that the Google protocol AP2 described in the original article works at the interface between the AI Agent and Merchant whereas your questions pertain to the interface between the human consumer and AI Agent. Accordingly, I think consumer's authorization of AI Agent to act on his / her behalf is outside the scope of AP2. But let's see what the author of the article says.