Peter Steinberger sees AI’s future as either one personal agent or a team of agents

Peter Steinberger said it is still unclear whether AI will center on one personal agent or a team of agents. He leans toward the personal-agent approach but sees both as possible, and said the industry has not yet worked out how personal and team agents would interact.

He described today’s chat-and-work interfaces as a compromise, noting that introducing new ways of interacting can confuse or annoy users. One possible architecture, not a settled plan, would have a personal agent delegate a complex task to a manager agent, which could then coordinate smaller subagents. Steinberger said he is exploring many ideas.