AI standards are proliferating, but “working on AI” doesn’t mean standards groups are solving the same problem. I looked at active work in W3C and IETF across content disclosure, AI usage preferences, bot authentication, agent permissions, Web capabilities, and agent identity. The interesting question isn’t just where work overlaps. It’s whether adjacent standards make compatible assumptions about each other. W3C, IETF, and the Emerging Shape of AI Standards:…