{"id":73850,"date":"2025-08-11T04:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73850\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:34:06","slug":"the-take-when-ai-agents-take-the-lead-do-humans-lose-control-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/73850\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take: When AI agents take the lead, do humans lose control? | Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AI agents are taking charge. They\u2019re booking appointments, managing your inbox, and handling tasks with minimal input. They promise convenience, but some have leaked data, made surprise purchases, and even tried to replicate themselves. Big Tech and the military are betting big on their future. As we hand over more control, are we ready for what comes next?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode:<\/p>\n<p>Episode credits:<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, Amy Walters, Diana Ferrero, and Sonia Bhagat, with Phillip Lanos, Melanie Marich, Marya Khan, Kisaa Zehra, Farhan Rafid, and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Take production team is Marcos Bartolom\u00e9, Sonia Bhagat, Spencer Cline, Sar\u00ed el-Khalili, Diana Ferrero, Tracie Hunte, Tamara Khandaker, Kylene Kiang, Phillip Lanos, Chloe K. Li, Melanie Marich, Amy Walters, and Noor Wazwaz. Our editorial interns are Marya Khan, Kisaa Zehra, and Farhan Rafid. Our host is Malika Bilal. Our engagement producers are Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad Al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us:<\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzGHKb8i9vTwjZkiFu6LhzsLUKFkYO60I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 AI agents are taking charge. They\u2019re booking appointments, managing your inbox, and handling tasks with minimal input.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,3,74],"class_list":["post-73850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}