What Ed Bayes thinks about AI agents

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Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, where he works on coding agents and leads design for Codex and ChatGPT Work.

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9 Sept 2026

Our readingA key challenge as agent products become more accessible is bringing safety thinking along and keeping people in control, so that, for example, a connected Gmail does not send emails without approval.

Their wordsone of the key challenges now as we as we move into this this world where we're making these products way more accessible is also bringing a lot of that safety thinking and you know keeping people in control. So for example, say you connect your your Gmail, right? You know, it shouldn't just send emails for you every time you have to approve things.

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