-Casey Crownheart
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Orchestrated agents are coming for white collar work
When people say AI will change industries, what they have in mind – whether they know it or not – are AI agents. ChatGPT showed that AI can talk. But something needs to be done to change the world.
The real power comes when agents work as teams, coordinating multiple roles to tackle complex tasks. Apps like Codex and Cloud Cowork offer a glimpse of this change, bringing multi-agent general-purpose productivity tools.
In theory, networks of AI agents could do for white-collar knowledge what assembly lines did for manufacturing. This is the vision. But as agents move into real-world systems, the risks also increase. Read the full story.
-Will Douglas Haven
Agent Orchestration is one of the 10 things that matter in AI right nowMIT Technology Review’s guide to what’s really worth your attention in the busy, hectic world of AI. We’re uncovering an item from the list every day here at The Download, so stay tuned.
MIT Technology Review described: No one is sure synthetic mirror life will kill us all
In February 2019, a group of scientists proposed a high-risk, cutting-edge, extremely exciting idea that the National Science Foundation should fund: creating “mirror” bacteria.
