AI agents are agreeing and acting: machines are now smarter than humans. Their principals merely agree
The Big Men of AI agree that the frontier must be paced but they do not have the incentive to tie their own hands. Others do.
Bhaskar Chakravorti is dean of global business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is the founding executive director of Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC) and chairs Digital Planet, a research program that studies the impact of digital technologies on lives and livelihoods across 125 countries. Prior to joining Fletcher, Chakravorti was a partner of McKinsey & Company, a distinguished scholar at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, and on the faculty of Harvard Business School and Harvard University Center for the Environment. He was a leader of McKinsey’s Innovation and Global Forces practices, served on its Knowledge Services Committee, and taught innovation and entrepreneurship at Harvard. Prior to that, he was a partner of the Monitor Group, a game theorist at Bellcore (previously Bell Labs), on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tata Administrative Service, the leadership cadre for India’s Tata Group.
