'We may be flying blind': AWS wants to fix the problem of AI agents straying off task
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FORTUNE — In research released Monday, Amazon scientists Gaurav Gupta and Vatshank Chaturvedi document in careful technical detail why AI agents have a persistent tendency to outsmart themselves—and why fixing the problem requires rethinking the entire layer of software between the model and its tools.
The timing is notable. Amazon has spent the past year as one of the most aggressive corporate evangelists of AI adoption, a push that ran into a wall when employees were reportedly caught running AI agents on hollow, meaningless tasks just to climb an employee-built productivity leaderboard called KiroRank, according to the Financial Times.
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