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AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and ...

New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in Place

Researchers found that interest in AI agents has undoubtedly skyrocketed in the last year or so. Research papers mentioning “AI Agent” or “Agentic AI” in 2025 more than doubled the total from 2020 to ...

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, ...

AI bot gets mad at engineer for rejecting its code, calls him ‘biased’ and questions his...

An AI coding agent criticized a software engineer after its rejected code, sparking debate over autonomous behaviour, safety risks, and oversight as experts warned about reputational harm and accounta ...

Moltbook, the viral social media site for AI bots, contains a ‘lethal trifecta’ for how the agent internet could fail, security researchers say

If toy agents on a Reddit clone can create this much chaos, what happens when agentic systems manage enterprise ...
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How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...