AI agents' effect on our autonomy will depend as much on the tech itself as how we choose to engage with it.
AI agents' effect on our autonomy will depend as much on the tech itself as how we choose to engage with it.
He argues that skills we do lose — like the ability to recite Homeric poems — are a price worth paying for all the extra things AI will allow us to do. Chatbots can talk people out of attempting suicide, he says. That could become a problem as AI agents become more integrated with white-collar work — particularly if they’re designed to sound more like a knowledgeable human than a machine with limits. One view of the future held by those like Hoffman is that professionals in areas like finance, law and media will take on more of a role overseeing these agents, which will do more of the work humans accomplish today.
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