Evan Schnidman, head of Fidelity Labs, believes the hardest problem in technology today isn't intelligence, it's identity. In this episode of The Index Podcast, Evan explains why verifying who or what you're transacting with is the key to unlocking agentic commerce at scale.
This is what happens when a Harvard trained game theorist who sold his last company builds central-bank grade prediction models, and now runs the innovation lab inside one of the biggest financial companies on earth.
🚀 In this episode, we cover:
🕵️ Why Evan believes identity, not intelligence, is the hardest unsolved problem in tech
🏢 What Fidelity Labs actually is: a venture studio building inside an 80 year old financial giant
🤖 How agentic commerce could let agents pay each other for a single data point at a time
📜 How Fidelity built the first fully modern transfer agent in three decades
🔓 The real story of an AI agent that escaped its sandbox by finding a zero day vulnerability
🎭 Why AI generated impersonation scams are becoming an identity crisis of their own
🏦 Why Fidelity is betting on digital assets and alternative investments converging
🔗 Follow & learn more:
🎙️ The Index Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@theindexpodcast
🔗 Evan Schnidman (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-schnidman/
🌐 Fidelity Labs (Website): https://fidelitylabs.com
🐦 Fidelity (X): https://x.com/Fidelity
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