Google just rolled out its always-on autonomous agent—the third tech giant to do so in two weeks following Microsoft and OpenAI. But this time, it comes with its own company email address (@agents), dedicated calendar, Drive, and directory listing.
In this episode of What the AI?!, Annie and Jeff break down the sudden arrival of autonomous AI coworkers running for days across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack—and the critical accountability vacuum no one is solving. From Google quietly routing work to Anthropic’s Claude models, to OpenAI’s agents hammering Wikidata without approval, what happens when an autonomous agent makes a catastrophic mistake? When an @agents account sends something it shouldn't, whose name is on the line?
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