MIT Technology Review AI reporting · 14h ago · 3/5
Agent orchestration ↗
Multi-agent orchestration tools—systems that coordinate multiple AI agents to work together on complex tasks—are now shipping from companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Perplexity. Examples include Anthropic's Claude Code and Claude Cowork, which let users delegate and oversee many tasks simultaneously across coding, research, and office productivity. These tools promise to transform white-collar work by automating workflows across healthcare, finance, and other sectors, though they also raise safety concerns about unpredictable AI systems interacting with critical infrastructure.
To change the world, AI needs to do more than just talk back: It needs to do stuff. And that's where agents come in.
Think of multi-agent systems as the new assembly lines. Henry Ford's innovation upended entire industries last century.