Psychology Today | 14.09.2026 03:43
The phrase “losing control of AI” tends to summon one image: a powerful system ignores its instructions, pursues its own objective, and becomes difficult to stop. Until recently, that belonged largely to the realm of speculation. Recent events have made these speculations come true. An AI agent differs from a chatbot. A chatbot answers. An agent can act. Give it a goal and, depending on its permissions, it can search, use software, write code, send messages, modify files, call other tools, and work an extensive stretch with very limited human intervention. That ability begets one big question: how do we keep such systems under control?
