Most things marketed today appeal to your fear and anxiety, and reveal what they are after in their names. Take for example artificial intelligence agents. These friendly and useful digital automations are being positioned as helpful, useful, and there to be your concierge and representative in a digital age. When their real intent is right there in their name, tricking you into giving up your secrets, desires, and agency that you have over your own life, giving it over to a platform. You are enabling agents to act on your behalf, but you are actually freely giving up any agency you have, teaching them how to do what matters to you the most in your world.
The evidence of the theft can be seen in you showing an AI agent how to do thing you want them to do. You are voluntarily giving away your agency to accomplish this task, literally sharing your secrets, and walking an agent through each step of the process. Then if an agent makes a mistake or does something it shouldn’t, you correct it over and over until it has what it needs to represent you. You are no longer the owner of the task, and have digitally given away your agency, signing away mundane tasks, but also personal ones that make you who you are, and matter to you the most as part of your day.
AI agents are designed to take something you already do and alleviate you from the “burden” of this task. You will pay a fee for this service, or you may have given it away for free. Either way, it is not yours anymore. Little by little, task by task, day by day, you are being robbed of your agency until eventually you are left with nothing. You don’t do anything. You don’t produce anything. You don’t care for anything. Your agent does. Over time agents will take away your agency and will demand more rights than you will be afforded, and you will be left with nothing that makes you who you are, just consuming and doing what you are told by the machine.
