Consumer Reports has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), an open-source initiative hosted at the Linux Foundation focused on building the foundational infrastructure for agentic AI systems.
The design of agentic systems will meaningfully shape consumer welfare in the years ahead. As AI agents begin to help people shop, manage subscriptions, navigate financial services, and make complex decisions, the technical standards set today will determine whose interests those systems ultimately serve. For that reason, we believe it’s important to have public-interest technologists at the table helping shape the infrastructure and standards that will guide this evolving marketplace.
Translating principles like fairness, transparency, accountability, privacy, and security into real-world systems and market standards is core to Consumer Reports’ mission. Through our work on loyal-by-design agents and agentic commerce, we are focused on ensuring that AI agents act in accordance with users’ preferences, constraints, and long-term interests.
AAIF stewards critical building blocks for secure, interoperable, and accountable agent ecosystems, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Its open-source consortium model is designed to evolve these technologies transparently and collaboratively, rather than under the proprietary control of a handful of companies. We look forward to rolling up sleeves with fellow members to help shape these emerging systems so they reflect and protect consumers’ interests.
