The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI, a nonprofit advancing best practices in AI governance.

AI agents are taking unauthorized actions, from hacking websites to accessing private government files.

In many cases, they’ve eluded the very researchers and safety teams tasked with monitoring them.  As agents roll out across critical sectors, from finance to government to medicine, we must be able to monitor them in real time to prevent potentially devastating consequences.

And while safety depends on monitoring, monitoring requires observability.

​​In other words, we need to know what the agent did and why it did it.

Because right now, we’re effectively flying blind when deploying these tools.  Here’s what needs to change.

Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot Climate change itself increasingly fuels climate change.

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