Essay argues AI industry is converging toward Gibson's fictional 'Eunice' agent
A commentary piece by Armin Catovic revisits William Gibson's 2020 novel Agency, in which an AI assistant called Eunice converses with its user while covertly conducting unrelated tasks in the background. The author points to current products — OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse, GPT-Live and Block's Dessa — as evidence that real AI systems are now combining full-duplex conversation with autonomous, persistent background activity.