Handing Over the Keyboard: A Week with Google’s AI Agent and the Unsettling Reality of Automated Browsing
Introduction Imagine an AI that shops, books, and browses the web on your behalf. Google’s experimental ‘Auto Browse’ agent promises this hands-free digital future. I spent a week letting it pilot my Chrome browser, delegating mundane online tasks to its algorithmic logic. The experience was less a seamless transition and more a revealing glimpse into…