Readers Aren’t Ready to Let AI Agents Loose on the Internet
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AI assistants used to wait for us to ask a question. AI agents are increasingly being built to do something very different: open a browser, navigate websites, write and run code, use software, communicate with other services, and keep working toward a goal without someone approving every individual step.
That distinction matters.
So, for our latest poll, we asked readers a fairly simple question with increasingly complicated implications: Should autonomous AI agents be allowed to act on the open internet without human approval?
Here’s how HackerNoon readers voted:
- 38% said human approval should always be required.
- 27% were comfortable letting agents operate autonomously provided strong safeguards were in place
- 19%preferred confining them to...
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