Agent autonomy

Self-replicating AI, your doctor’s chatbot & agents at dinner

Self-replicating AI, your doctor’s chatbot & agents at dinner

A look at three developments shaping the near future of AI: Anthropic's research on small models that could copy themselves across cheap consumer devices, a JAMA study showing how doctors are adopting clinical chatbots for treatment decisions, and an experiment in which AI agents booked a founders' dinner and then networked with one another. The panel weighs security risks in the home, the trade-offs of speed versus verification in medicine, and how much autonomy agents should have when dealing with other agents.

An AI Agent Got Its User Banned From Resy — Keycard, JPMorgan Chase & AAuth

An AI Agent Got Its User Banned From Resy — Keycard, JPMorgan Chase & AAuth

A panel of experts discusses the challenges of granting autonomy to AI agents due to coarse-grained authorization systems. They advocate for intent-based runtime authorization, leveraging concepts like "missions" and "budgets" from AOTH, brain-hands architecture, and dynamic policy management. The discussion covers agentic commerce, accountability through tamper-resistant audit logs, and whether P(doom) is a real threat, emphasizing engineering ingenuity and societal learning from failures.

Stack Overflow - From Idea to Product | DevDay 2026

Stack Overflow - From Idea to Product | DevDay 2026

A VP of Product at Stack Overflow explains how a small team used OpenAI Codex to build two very different products: the enterprise knowledge intelligence layer Stack Internal and the experimental agent-first platform Stack Overflow for Agents. The discussion covers how to tune guardrails to product risk, how archetypes simplify multi-source enterprise ingestion, and how a community built for humans can be extended so agents both consume and contribute knowledge.