Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control

Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP of agentic AI, shows the Amazon Quick knowledge graph at the AWS Summit in New York. (Screenshot via live stream) Amazon Web Services is announcing a new set of AI agents for businesses, developers, and individual users, capable of everything from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email. The agents, unveiled at the AWS Summit in New York, reflect an attempt to maximize autonomy while ultimately keeping humans in control of how much the AI does on its own.