LinkedIn Founder’s AI Dream Needs Human Vigilance: Parmy Olson

If you’ve heard recent proclamations from leaders of Salesforce Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., we’re living in the year of the “agent,” or artificial intelligence services that act more independently than chatbots. A new model from China called Manus, for instance, went viral over the weekend after its creators claimed it could buy real estate and program video games.

But building AI that needs little prompting raises uncomfortable questions about where humans will fit into, well, everything in the next decade, as our cognitive labor gets automated away from our work.

Reid Hoffman has spent the last few years banging the drum on AI’s ...