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Giving software programmes new autonomy opens the door for an enormous amount of risk.
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Catherine Thorbecke
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If there was a singular buzzword to emerge at Asia’s largest tech conference last week, it was “agents”.
I jotted it down more than a dozen times from various executive talks and seminars at Taiwan’s Computex. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang described them as future “digital employees”. An executive at a semiconductor firm referred to agentic artificial intelligence as “the next paradigm shift”. I watched countless demo videos featuring bots taking on increasingly complex tasks in users’ work and personal lives – from putting together a marketing presentation to turning off the lights in your child’s bedroom after they’ve fallen asleep.
