Whose Agent Is It Anyways?
From Super Prompt: Generative AI by Tony Wan
November 7, 2025 · 16 min · Season 2 · Episode 1
About this episode
The episode explores the agency of AI systems and the interests they serve in various applications.
Description: AI agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic promise to act on your behalf—booking flights, handling tasks, making decisions. What kind of agency do these systems actually have? And whose interests are they serving? Enterprise AI agents are already deployed in customer support, code generation, and task automation. Consumer agents—ChatGPT Agent Mode, personal task assistants—face a wider gap between marketing promises and actual capabilities. The alignment problem: agents need ac...
People in this episode
Host: Tony Wan
Topics covered
- AI agents
- agency
- consumer technology
- enterprise AI
- task automation
- alignment problem
Keywords
- AI agents
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- ChatGPT
- task automation
- consumer agents
- enterprise AI
- alignment problem
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic
Products: ChatGPT Agent Mode
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