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AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures -The Register [View all]
AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.
So says MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), which analyzed 30 AI agents for its 2025 AI Agent Index, which assesses machine learning models that can take action online through their access to software services.
AI agents may take the form of chat applications with tools (Manus AI, ChatGPT Agent, Claude Code), browser-based agents (Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, ByteDance Agent TARS), or enterprise workflow agents (Microsoft Copilot Studio, ServiceNow Agent).
The paper accompanying the AI Agent Index observes that despite growing interest and investment in AI agents, "key aspects of their real-world development and deployment remain opaque, with little information made publicly available to researchers or policymakers."
The AI community frenzy around open source agent platform OpenClaw, and its accompanying agent interaction network Moltbook – plus ongoing frustration with AI-generated code submissions to open source projects – underscores the consequences of letting agents loose without behavioral rules.
So says MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), which analyzed 30 AI agents for its 2025 AI Agent Index, which assesses machine learning models that can take action online through their access to software services.
AI agents may take the form of chat applications with tools (Manus AI, ChatGPT Agent, Claude Code), browser-based agents (Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, ByteDance Agent TARS), or enterprise workflow agents (Microsoft Copilot Studio, ServiceNow Agent).
The paper accompanying the AI Agent Index observes that despite growing interest and investment in AI agents, "key aspects of their real-world development and deployment remain opaque, with little information made publicly available to researchers or policymakers."
The AI community frenzy around open source agent platform OpenClaw, and its accompanying agent interaction network Moltbook – plus ongoing frustration with AI-generated code submissions to open source projects – underscores the consequences of letting agents loose without behavioral rules.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ai_agents_abound_unbound_by/]
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