What AI Agents Actually Need: Terminology, Autonomy, and Job Displacement

Today's research clusters around a single tension: the more capable AI agents get, the more urgent it becomes to define what they actually are, who controls them, and what they displace. Thomas Wolf published a glossary that cuts through agent terminology confusion, Benedict Evans analyzed which jobs are actually exposed to AI disruption, and Dan Shipper's Lenny interview articulates why more automation means more humans needed — not fewer.