Forbes March 12, 2025
“Day by day … the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them.” Does the sentiment sound familiar—especially when it comes to the current intense discourse around AI? In fact, the quote comes from the writer Samuel Butler, whose 1872 novel Erewhon depicted a society that had destroyed all machines in fear of being surpassed by its own creations.
Humanity has been afraid of engineering itself out of existence for centuries, and it hasn’t happened yet. But agentic or agent-based AI, the next step in the evolution of the game-changing technology, is highlighting these concerns in new ways even as it promises abilities far beyond those of current models.
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