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Payments Dive reports Fiserv executive Adit Gadgil’s view that autonomous commerce will require separate records of customer intent and payment execution. He distinguishes current human-approved agent traffic from future autonomous transactions and highlights liability concerns across merchants, issuers and networks.
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# Fiserv taps AI for retail rethink > Evidence tier: B1 > Evidence type: Executive interview > Source: [Payments Dive](https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/fiserv-taps-ai-retail-rethink-payments/833581) > Published: 2026-10-21 > Captured: 2026-10-22T01:36:04.932Z ## Source summary Payments Dive reports Fiserv executive Adit Gadgil’s view that autonomous commerce will require separate records of customer intent and payment execution. He distinguishes current human-approved agent traffic from future autonomous transactions and highlights liability concerns across merchants, issuers and networks. ## Why it matters Executive interview and future architecture discussion, not a newly launched autonomous payment system or validated market forecast. ## Key numbers No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report. ## Topics and entities - Industry lane: Agentic payments - Entities: Fiserv - AI-native finance - Cross-border payments ## Evidence and credibility note Executive interview and future architecture discussion, not a newly launched autonomous payment system or validated market forecast. Date evidence: Automatically verified from date meta: 2026-10-21 ## First-party corroboration No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked. ## Original-source traceback [Open the original Payments Dive report](https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/fiserv-taps-ai-retail-rethink-payments/833581) --- This is a structured Payments Hot Markdown source summary derived from external reporting. Use the original link above to read the publisher's article; copyright remains with the original publisher.