One Society, or Two? The Age of Autonomous Computers
summary
Demo compresses four cloud desktop agents running autonomously for hours into 30 seconds and argues autonomy requires visible control rather than opaque APIs. Claims GUI must be the shared trust surface and proposes glance, guide, replay as concrete requirements: visibility, teachability, accountability. Introduces a middle-language Simulan between code and natural language and ships a product called Site, a cloud full-desktop GUI agent stack; warns over 90% of current code approvals go to humans, creating approval fatigue.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to autonomous computers
- 1:13History of human-computer interaction
- 4:02Agents and the GUI revolution
- 5:28Trust and determinism in agents
- 6:51Visibility as the trust foundation
- 7:59Glance, guide, and replay for trust
- 13:37Architecture and product overview
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