We Can’t Afford to Rush the March of AI Agents
Autonomy without trust is a recipe for failure.
There are foundational cracks that will hold back AI agents for some time.
Photographer: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg
If there was a singular buzzword to emerge at Asia’s largest tech conference last week, it was “agents.”
I jotted it down more than a dozen times from various executive talks and seminars at Taiwan’s Computex. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang described them as future “digital employees.” An executive at a semiconductor firm referred to agentic AI as “the next paradigm shift.” I watched countless demo videos featuring bots taking on increasingly complex tasks in users’ work and personal lives — from putting together a marketing presentation to turning off the lights in your child’s bedroom after they’ve fallen asleep.