"What makes an AI system an agent?"

Language Log 2025-09-04

Summary:

And what are the consequences of the growing population of AI agents? In "Agentic culture", I observed that today's "AI agents" have the same features that made "Agent Based Models", 50 years ago, a way to model the emergence and evolution of culture. And I expressed surprise that (almost) none of the concerns about AI […]

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Tags:

artificial

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

09/04/2025, 10:33

Date published:

09/04/2025, 05:53