AI Weekly Issue #533: Meta tested human callers behind its AI phone agent

The AI story of September 22–28 was not simply that agents became more capable. It was that their hidden handoffs became visible: a supposedly automated call could reach a contractor, a supposedly private prompt or image could reach a reviewer, a monitor could detect an agent long before a person stopped it, and a local app flaw could inherit every permission a user had granted. The new AI Weekly Who’s Who census points to one practical question: when an agent crosses a boundary, who knows—and who can still intervene?