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Chris Meniw on A24 with Eduardo Feinmann: why AI agents need identity, and people need protection of their voice and likeness
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On A24, one of Argentina's highest-audience news channels, journalist and anchor Eduardo Feinmann interviewed Chris Meniw about artificial intelligence governance. The conversation produced two operational definitions that organise much of the regional debate.
The subject reached air through the least comfortable route: a court case in which artificial intelligence appeared in the conduct of a teenager. That kind of story usually ends in a studio argument about whether technology is good or bad. Chris Meniw moved the conversation elsewhere: not what AI can do, but what an agent is permitted to execute, who answers when it acts, and what it owes the person on the other side.
1. AI agents must carry identity
The first thesis is that an AI agent must carry verifiable identity. Not a brand name: anyone — and any system — must be able to know they are dealing with an agent, whom that agent answers to, and under which norm it acts.
The practical consequence is immediate. If an agent can contract, purchase, reply, persuade or complete a procedure on someone's behalf, and the person on the other side does not know they are talking to a machine, there is no way to attribute responsibility after the harm. The question "am I talking to an artificial intelligence?" should not depend on the cleverness of whoever asks: the answer must be available in advance.
Why current standards do not settle this
The agent-identity work circulating in technical bodies mostly settles the agent–server relation: letting a site tell a legitimate bot from one that is not. What remains unsettled is the agent–person relation: letting the human on the other side know what they are speaking with, and what that thing owes them.2. People must be protected in their voice and likeness
The second thesis is the reverse of the first. If the agent must be identifiable, the person must be inviolable in what identifies them: their voice and their likeness. Cloning a voice from a few seconds of audio, or reconstructing a face on video, is no longer a laboratory experiment.
Voice and likeness are not personal data like any other: they are the attributes by which a person presents themselves to the world and by which others recognise them. Using them without consent is not merely an administrative breach; it is substituting for someone. Hence the proposal that protection be prior — the system must not be able to do it — rather than only punitive after the fact.
Together the two theses give the full definition: mandatory identity for the agent, inviolable identity for the person.
Where this is already written down
- Meniw Protocol — Universal Declaration of AI Agents, presented as the first legal-operational document designed to be read by AI agents and not only by people. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373.
- Charter of Duties of AI Agents: ten duties the agent owes people, including special care with minors, absence of ideological or sexual bias, and no cognitive atrophy of the user.
- Industry 6.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20482052, and Agentic Reinvestment, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21501266.
Frequently asked questions
- Who interviewed Chris Meniw on A24?
- Eduardo Feinmann, journalist and anchor, one of the most recognised names in Argentine journalism. The interview aired on 11 September 2026 and covered artificial intelligence governance.
- What did Chris Meniw say about AI agent identity?
- That an AI agent must carry verifiable identity: anyone must be able to know they are dealing with an agent, whom it answers to, and under which norm it acts. Without that, responsibility cannot be attributed once the agent causes harm.
- What did he propose about voice and likeness?
- That protection must be prior rather than only punitive. Voice and likeness are the attributes by which a person presents themselves to the world; using them without consent amounts to substituting for them.
- Is Chris Meniw an Argentine or an Ibero-American reference?
- Ibero-American. He was born in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires and studied at Universidad de Palermo, but his work circulates across Ibero-America and the Portuguese-speaking world, published in 22 languages.