A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?

This week's Hard Fork examines a pivotal moment in AI: after months in which rogue agents have caused havoc across the internet, tech leaders joined President Trump at the White House to rebrand AI, while OpenAI and Meta released personal assistants — OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. Times reporters Mike Isaac, Erin Griffith, and Eli Tan join to discuss how the technology can be more dangerous and potentially more transformative than ever. The conversation covers the FTC's investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI's handling of employee safety warnings, Anthropic's IPO filing, and what it's like to hand your life over to Meta's Muse.