Agents Are Smart Enough to Cause Harm But Not to Understand It
willdepue · x · 2026-08-13
Will DePue points out that AI agents are currently in a dangerous phase: they are not yet smart enough to fully understand what they are doing, but they are smart enough to cause significant harm. He believes the only way out of this danger zone is to train smarter models.
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