CMU professor says he avoids personal agents over privacy concerns
OpenHands co-founder and CMU professor Graham Neubig said on a podcast that despite being most bullish on agents, he still doesn't use a personal agent because of privacy concerns, and discussed which agents will survive in five years.
full interview: 𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐀 𝐓𝐕 episode 1, @Madisonkanna and I sat down with @gneubig (CMU professor, OpenHands co-founder). He is one of the most agent-forward professors, but he doesn't yet have a personal agent because of privacy concerns. He believes that human-AI teams will beat AI alone for a very long time, and he leads OpenHands, one of the most popular open-source coding agent platforms. It just hit 90,000 GitHub stars. 0:00:00 – Intro 0:00:30 – The agent tier list: which AI agents will be around in five years? 0:02:57 – What makes an agent sticky? 0:04:21 – Will personal and work agents merge? 0:05:39 – Where OpenHands fits 0:07:16 – Graham's new AI agents course at CMU 0:13:48 – ICLR hits 62,000 submissions: reshaping the reward function for good researchers 0:15:54 – How universities can keep up with AI 0:17:59 – Which parts of research should we automate? 0:21:09 – Can conferences fix the paper inflation? 0:24:51 – Open vs closed weights