All Rise: Internet Court For AI Agents Is In Session

In the not-too-distant future everyone will be using so-called AI agents.  Connected to the cloud, they will live inside your mobile phone ready to assist in whatever tasks you need accomplished, from replying to emails and booking flights to tax-loss harvesting in your portfolio.  Robinhood’s customers now use AI agents to analyze stock market gyrations and make autonomous trades based on custom instructions. SAP’s Joule helps its enterprise customers analyze inventory, source the best suppliers and procure goods. Shopping agents operating at machine speed like Amazon’s Buy for Me will scan the web for the best deals, negotiate terms with agents representing the seller, establish delivery windows and make purchases. Well-known AI and crypto companies, from Anthropic and OpenAI to Coinbase and Circle, are already racing to make this bot-driven future a reality for all. But what happens when the couch your agent ordered arrives in the wrong color? Or gets delivered two weeks late, or damaged in a way the seller insists happened after delivery? By Nina Bambysheva, Deputy Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices