Your AI is emailing my AI—and nobody’s in charge

Not long ago, a colleague of mine received a courteous and professionally worded email. It informed him about the current state of a shared project and listed the next steps required and who was accountable for each. A perfectly ordinary email—except it was, from start to finish, the work of an AI agent that had been set up to act on behalf of the person it represented. My colleague’s experience is still relatively unusual, but it is also the canary in the coal mine. In May, Bloomberg profile...