Anders Sandberg shares his most useful non-obvious AI agent use case
anderssandberg · x · 2026-10-18
Responding to Spencer Greenberg's question about the most useful non-obvious thing AI agents do for you, philosopher Anders Sandberg shares his answer: having agents rename downloaded science paper PDFs to sensible filenames and move them into his library — a small but practical document-management workflow.
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