programmed
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AI agents are essentially AI chatbots that are programmed to operate somewhat autonomously.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He’s like, “I just can’t watch shows with commercials anymore” — as people are programmed now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Unlike the 2019 GPT-2 paper, this fearmongering has broken through in a remarkable way, prompting the public to panic over stories about programmed “agents” from the aforementioned firms hacking into other companies’ infrastructure.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
