German TV debate on AI agent risks: researcher says LLM reasoning already superhuman
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-21
Florian Gallwitz summarized the key claims from the October 20 Markus Lanz talk "Gefahr durch KI-Agenten" based on official ZDF subtitles:
- Hans Uszkoreit (computer scientist): current language models are real intelligence, even superhuman at reasoning and text understanding; expects the next generation in 6 months to 2 years. Safety should come from the tech itself (AI systems monitoring each other) plus agent registration. He sees social disruption as the biggest danger because "society is far too slow".
- Christoph Schell (KUKA CEO): Germany talks too much about regulation and too little about progress.
The episode focused on the risks of AI agents and how Europe should respond.
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