Artificial intelligence (“AI”) agents are AI systems that can operate autonomously—that is without ongoing human instruction. AI agents are typically both benign and easily identifiable, such as when they operate to correct grammar in a word processor or assist a driver in a self-driving car. But AI agents can also be deployed in a manner where they are neither benign nor identifiable, such as when they are used as social media chatbots pretending to be human to interfere with elections on behalf of foreign powers, or AI agents programmed to steal passwords through phishing attacks.
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