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AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?
WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents, and to get some advice on how we can use automation while retaining our humanity.
“One problem I see is that people will question who is responsible for the actions of an agent,” reads a WIRED interview with MIT professor Pattie Maes, originally published in 1995. She’s as optimistic as ever about the potential for personal automation, but she’s convinced that “extremely naive” engineers are not spending enough time addressing the complexities of human-computer interactions. Any social media recommendation engine filling a timeline with tailored posts or incessant ad tracker showing me those mushroom gummies for the thousandth time on Instagram could be considered a personal AI agent.
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