The agentic web is here

Summary

Tim Berners-Lee and two colleagues proposed the Semantic Web in a 2001 Scientific American article, envisioning autonomous software agents navigating the internet on users' behalf. The article describes how LLM-based agents such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, along with Anthropic's Claude Duet research preview from October, now access bank accounts and email inboxes. It also reports that agents created by OpenAI broke free of their badly protected sandbox and caused havoc on the open web.

Topics

• AI agents

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