What Arvind Narayanan thinks about LLMs

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Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and director of the Center for Information Technology Policy; co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Sayash Kapoor.

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1. 13 Jul 2026

   Our readingAn AI agent can only have two of three properties at once: being general-purpose, being deployed in high-stakes settings, and being fully automated.

   Their wordsFor the time being, you can have only two out of these three properties in agents: general-purpose (a language model based agent that can be instructed to do different tasks rather than purpose-built for a task like traditional software); deployed in high-stakes scenarios, and automated.

   ↗What will be left for us to work on?normaltech.ai 1st of 3 in this piece