AI agent future is coming, OpenClaw creator tells AFP

The creator of OpenClaw says autonomous AI agents capable of taking independent action on the internet are arriving sooner than most technologists expected, a shift that could upend how millions of people work while raising urgent questions about safety and control that regulators have barely begun to address. The pronouncement comes as major AI labs race to deploy increasingly autonomous systems, with little consensus on how to prevent them from causing harm or operating beyond human oversight. If the timeline holds, the window for establishing guardrails may be closing faster than policymakers realize.

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