definition claim
Andrej Karpathy defines an AI agent as something akin to an employee or intern hired to work with a person.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
In their words
The transcript segments this claim was taken from
“So in my mind, I mean, when you're talking about an agent,”
“I guess, or what the labs have in mind and what maybe I have in mind as well, is it's you should think of it almost like an employee or like an intern”
“that you would hire to work with you.”Play from 1:04Report a misattribution
90%how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
80%importance to the conversation
98%confidence the claim was read correctly