OpenAI and Meta Push Ahead With AI Agents, Testing Public’s Trust
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When top labs push agents into “sensitive tasks,” the trust battle shifts from raw capability to failure modes, logging, and recourse. If you’re deploying agents in customer-facing or financial workflows, assume users will benchmark your guardrails and transparency against whatever OpenAI and Meta normalize this quarter.
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