OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me

OpenAI’s new always-on agent, Dots, shows where AI is headed: toward delegated, proactive task execution across the web, from shopping to scheduling, which could reshape how employees and customers interact with digital services. But the article underscores that today’s agents are still error-prone, awkward, and potentially risky from a privacy and trust standpoint—meaning CIOs should view them as an emerging automation layer with real productivity upside, but not yet a dependable substitute for governed workflows or human oversight.