The most reliable AI agent is not the one that does everything on its own.
It is the one that knows when to stop.
Autonomy sounds impressive. But in a real workflow, the number of actions you can delegate to AI is not what matters most. What matters is setting the right boundaries.
AI plans often sound convincing — until you describe how they would actually work. I have been exploring AI 2040: Plan A, a new scenario from the team behind AI 2027.
The most useful idea in it is not a prediction. It is a method the authors call scenario scrutiny.