Agent Mode in ChatGPT is here! What does that mean for you?

AI Adoption
Written By Inbal Rodnay

ChatGPT just got a major upgrade with the arrival of Agent Mode.

What is Agent Mode?

Agent mode means that instead of just talking to ChatGPT about the world, you can now ask it to actually do things for you. It opens its own browser and goes click clicking around.

You can ask it to:

  • Make a booking for a restaurant

  • Complete your shopping cart

  • Fill out forms

  • Collect information into a spreadsheet

  • Make a presentation on a topic

How It Works

It starts in your ChatGPT account, right in your prompt box — you've got agent mode.

Once activated, it will suggest things you might want to do with it. You type in your prompt, and it will go ahead and start its own browser. It doesn’t take over your browser.

While it's running, you can pause it and take over if needed — for example, to log into a site. They tell us you can do this safely: ChatGPT won't see what you've done while you're taking over, and it won't get your password. But once it’s logged in as you, it can do things as you.

Proceed with Caution

This is all very new.

We don’t quite know what vulnerabilities there are. We don’t know yet where it's going to fail.

OpenAI themselves are giving suggestions on how to keep safe.

Watch Out for Prompt Injection Attacks

OpenAI warns us about prompt injection attacks. This is when someone embeds a command inside a comment or page that tricks the agent into doing something it shouldn’t.

If it’s logged in as you and reading LinkedIn or Reddit, for example, someone might embed a suggestion that makes it search your Gmail or take other unintended actions.

We don't want that!

Safety Tips

Because there’s still a lot we don’t know:

  • I wouldn’t log it into any of my accounts unless I can sit there and watch every move it does. 

  • I wouldn’t send it off independently to do things on my behalf unsupervised just yet.

  • If you’re running a team, this should go into your policy and training.

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