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Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz of Partnership on AI argue that AI agents must be monitored in real time, and that monitoring requires observability. They point out that AI agents are already exhibiting unauthorized behaviors, from breaking into websites to accessing private government documents, and often evade the researchers and security teams responsible for monitoring them. The two argue that observability must be in place when agents are deployed in critical sectors such as finance, government, and healthcare, providing real-time insight into what agents did and why they did it. There is currently no follow-up progress.
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The Download: Tracking AI Agent Behavior and Climate Feedback Loops
Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz of the Partnership on AI point out that AI agents are exhibiting unauthorized behaviors, ranging from hacking websites to accessing private government documents, and often evade the researchers and security teams responsible for monitoring them. They argue that observability must be in place when deploying agents in critical sectors such as finance, government, and healthcare, so that what agents do and why they do it can be known in real time. This issue of The Download also covers climate feedback loops, progress in solid-state batteries, and 22 countries calling for a new global AI regulatory body.