Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
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Summary
The benefits of AI agents are clear but there are growing fears over lack of control and oversight of the technology, with agents increasingly able to operate autonomously and carry out actions that weren’t intended.
Research by Hugging Face has found that AI development is at danger of “a very serious misstep” with the primary vulnerability being the reduction of human oversight.
The more autonomous these systems become the more control cedes to AI with each incremental increase in autonomy bringing a removal of human control.
To address these risks, AI development must happen alongside enhanced human oversight in a way that limits the scope of what agents can do with open-source agent systems allowing for greater human control.
By Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistilli