From Large Language Models to Autonomous AI Agents — Architecture, Capabilities, and Emerging Risks
Large Language Models are stateless, single-pass prediction engines — powerful but passive. Wrapping them in a perception–action loop with environment access and tool use transforms them into something qualitatively different: autonomous AI agents. This post walks through the transformer architecture, explains how the agent paradigm introduces closed-loop reasoning over environments and tasks, surveys the growing toolkit ecosystem, and examines the emerging risk landscape.
