The Next Agent Frontier: From Capable AI to Economically Trustworthy AI
r3dd1tr · reddit · 2026-09-12
The author frames three stages of agent progress: from "can AI answer this?" to "can AI actually do this?" — agents now use tools, write code, call APIs, even make payments. He argues the next big question is whether we can trust AI when its actions carry real economic consequences, and that building economically trustworthy agents may matter more than making them more capable.
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