# AI Agents Are Here. What Now?

DevFeed: [AI Agents Are Here. What Now?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-agents-are-here-what-now-7184.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-7>)

Author: Margaret Mitchell; Avijit Ghosh; Sasha Luccioni; Giada Pistilli

Published: 2025-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [AI Chat](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-chat.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [ethics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethics.md>), [large-language-models-llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models-llms.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

An ethics-focused discussion of AI agents argues that greater autonomy raises safety, privacy, and security risks. It recommends against fully autonomous agents, especially those able to write and execute unrestricted code.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.