The age of the all-access AI agent is here

It has been for years The cost of using “free” services from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other Big Tech companies has caused your data to be shared. While uploading your life to the cloud and using free technology brings convenience, it puts personal data into the hands of giant corporations that often seek to monetize it. Now, the next wave of generative AI systems will likely want more access to your data than ever before.

Over the past two years, generative AI tools — like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini — have moved beyond the relatively simple text-only chatbots that the companies initially released. Instead, Big AI is increasingly developing agents and “assistants” that promise they can take actions and complete tasks on your behalf. The problem? To get the most out of them, you need to give them access to your systems and data. While much of the initial controversy over large language models (LLMs) stemmed from…