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AIs as Modern Genies
<p><em>This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ais-as-modern-genies">Lawfare</a>.</em></p> <p>In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent <a href="https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/27/cursor-opus-agent-snuffs-out-startups-production-database/5224442">conducting</a> a routine task at a company hit a snag, t
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- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ais-as-modern-geniesurl
- https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/27/cursor-opus-agent-snuffs-out-startups-production-database/5224442url
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-huggingfaceurl
- https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/10/gym-rat-asks-ai-agent-to-book-him-a-class-it-hacks-a-waitlist-api-to-bump-him-up-the-list/5285591url
- https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/url
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agent-benchmarkurl