Crossing the Threshold: How OpenAI and Anthropic Approach Autonomy and Safety in Financial Agents
By Richard MacManus, Latent Space
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One of the key themes at the AI Engineer New York conference this week was how to balance agent autonomy with security and safety. Both frontier labs and financial firms focused on this issue in their presentations this week. The main lesson: safe autonomy depends on where you put controls and human judgment, rather than how many restrictions you impose. Sponsor: Build shopping into your agent with shop.dev Adding commerce to an agent usually means rebuilding search and checkout from scratch. shop.dev gives you a single API for shopping in any agent or app. One connection gives you access to over a billion products with current price and availability, instant sign in with Shop, and one-tap Shop Pay checkout that happens right in the conversation.
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