AI’s next big (risky) thing: Special agents to organise your life

Tasks that would have taken a month can now be done in an hour, but people will be exposing a lot more digital information, raising privacy and security concerns.

AI agents, set to be a major focus of the industry in 2025, will initially automate mundane tasks like online shopping, but will eventually be able to tackle complex work.

Gerrit De Vynck

Jan 6, 2025 – 1.52pm

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Tech companies are racing to upgrade chatbots like ChatGPT to not only offer answers, but to also take control of a computer on a person’s behalf.

Experts in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity warn the technology will require people to expose much more of their digital lives to corporations, potentially bringing new privacy and security problems.

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