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A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

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A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

Hard Fork

1 DAYS AGO
Hard Fork

Hard Fork

1 DAYS AGO
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This week, after months in which rogue agents have caused havoc across the internet, tech’s most powerful leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand A.I. At the same time, two of the biggest companies in the field — OpenAI and Meta — rele...

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Hard Fork examines the promise and danger of AI agents, from White House rebranding and industry self-regulation to personal assistants that can act inside your accounts and relationships.
01:00
AI agents could be both useful and dangerous
05:09
The summit was a rebranding exercise
10:06
Self-regulation may be willfully naive
14:06
AI has an echo chamber problem
19:36
Meta has its foot on the gas
25:41
Muse became one of Eli’s most useful AI tools
30:23
Delegating everything can become unsettling
36:15
The agent era will be messy
40:23
The reverse Tamagotchi
46:48
Anthropic’s astonishing risk disclosure
50:05
Taxpayers may not share the upside
52:34
Exploring the weird new future

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AI’s promise, political rebranding and the limits of self-regulation
00:00
Inside the race: safety dissent, accelerationism and deceptive models
15:25
Handing daily life to personal AI agents
24:08
AI’s financial scale and the meaning of delegation
44:59

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Speaker 2: There are two things I'm having trouble keeping track of in tech right now. The first is all the new personal assistant agents. There's Meta's Muse. So talking to your muse, it's often the fastest way to get things done, and it is also just real...