{"id":255957,"date":"2026-05-26T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/the-right-track-personal-agents-for-the-future\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:10:13","slug":"the-right-track-personal-agents-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/the-right-track-personal-agents-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Track: Personal Agents For The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Right Track: Personal Agents For The Future<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnwerner\/2026\/05\/26\/the-right-track-personal-agents-for-the-future\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-26 11:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

AI (Artificial Intelligence) concept. Deep learning. Visual contents.<\/span><\/p>\n

getty<\/p>\n

We\u2019re at an interesting moment right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. For a couple of years, or really, ever since the first stirrings of publicly available \u201cretail\u201d AI tech, we\u2019ve been scrutinizing what you might call the \u201cfirst wave\u201d of AI: LLMs that can approximate human cognition, but only in sort of a \u201cGoogle search\u201d way, providing, sorting, and generally dealing with information, in some ways an extension of an I\/O model, albeit an amazingly human-like one.<\/p>\n

Now, though, we\u2019re moving toward something new: autonomous task engines. As people continue to ponder: can we make AI entities sentient?, others are suggesting that, sentient or not, they can handle routine tasks for us, or even longer-frame, multi-step tasks.<\/p>\n

In that context, there\u2019s a lot of thinking about what this will look like. Take an interview with Jenny Lay-Flurrie Trusted Technology Group set up by Microsoft in early 2025, in which Lay-Flurrie talks about advocacy for the blind and other aspects of equitable AI development.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we make sure that we build it right?\u201d she said. \u201cAnd how can we make sure that it stays right? Society is not always the most inclusive place, so there are instances where we have to insert data to train it.\u201d <\/p>\n

A Panel Discussion<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s more on evaluating the advent of \u201cpersonal agents,\u201d task-assisters that will make our lives easier, with a group of experts in a panel at the Imagination in Action event last month. (Disclaimer: April\u2019s IIA event is an annual conference that I help to facilitate.)<\/p>\n

Maria Gorskikh, of our own MIT community, mentioned OpenClaw, and also alternatives that people are working on now. Gorskikh works on project NANDA, something I have written about a lot in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened that was really important this year was OpenClaw,\u201d she said. \u201cOpenClaw was specifically important because it kind of kicked off the mass…<\/p>\n

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