Thinking On Paper

AI Agents 101: What They Are, Who’s Building Them, and What’s Next


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AI agents can read feeds, make decisions, coordinate with other agents, and even speak on your behalf. 


In this short conversation, Andrew Hill breaks down what an agent actually is, why every company is racing to build them, and how close we are to personal agents that manage our schedules, explain our thinking, and interact with other people’s agents without us in the loop.


The discussion pushes into a harder question: people are already sharing their most intimate details with AI. At what point do these systems become better relationship partners than other humans?


If agents are about to represent us online, what does that mean for trust, privacy, and everyday interactions? 


This episode gets into the shift that’s already underway, and where personal AI agents could go next.


If agents end up knowing us better than anyone else, who are we really talking to?


Rock on.

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Mark & Jeremy



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Thinking On PaperBy The Human Story of Technology, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson