Tech companies are racing to upgrade chatbots like ChatGPT not only to offer answers, but also to take control of a computer to take action 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. In recent weeks, executives from leading AI companies including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI have all predicted that a new generation of digital helpers termed “AI agents” will completely change how people interact with computers. They claim the technology, set to be a major focus of the industry in 2025, will initially automate mundane tasks like online shopping or data entry and eventually tackle complex work that can take humans hours. “This will be a very significant change to the way the world works in a short period of time,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a company event in October. “People will ask an agent to do something for them that would have taken a month and it will finish in an hour.”

Full story : Tech executives are pitching “AI agents,” digital helpers that can perform tasks on your computer, as the next big thing in artificial intelligence.