AI Now researcher: Big touts autonomous agents but lacks basic safety practices
AINowInstitute · x · 2026-09-12
AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf, speaking via PBS, argues that Big Tech sells the idea of powerful, autonomous models while failing to implement basic safety practices to monitor and control their agents, citing the recent Hugging Face incident as an example of the gap between marketing and actual safeguards.
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