AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025: Takeaways from the Team Building AskCR
This summer, members of Consumer Reports (CR)’s Innovation team traveled to San Francisco to attend the AI Engineer World’s Fair (AIEWF)....
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Meet CR’s 2025 Public Interest Tech Fellows
This summer, Consumer Reports (CR), in partnership with the Public Interest Technology (PiTech) Initiative at Cornell Tech, the Ethics, Society,...
Agents Talking to Agents (A2A): Reshaping the Marketplace and Your Power
In previous posts, we explored the importance of loyalty in AI agents and the legal framework like the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)...
My Agent Messed Up! Understanding Errors and Recourse in AI Transactions
In my previous post, I shared highlights from Stanford CodeX’s AI Agents x Law Workshop exploring how we might foster an ecosystem where AI agents...
Defining ‘Loyalty’ for AI Agents: Insights from the Stanford AI Agents x Law Workshop
AI agents are rapidly moving from science fiction to daily reality. These sophisticated software systems promise to manage tasks, conduct...
Consumer Trust, Real-World Impact, Multi-Agent Systems: Highlights from AI Agent Congress 2
Members of the AI Agent Congress gather in San Francisco, CA on March 31, 2025. This week in San Francisco, Consumer Reports (CR) joined the second...
The Future of Consumer-Authorized AI Agents
Last week, Consumer Reports and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at the Human-Centered AI Institute co-hosted a workshop exploring the future of...
Building Consumer Agency
Agentic AI has profound implications for every part of society. A world in which everyone has access to a personal AI tutor means big changes to...
Designing AI Agents That Work for You, Part 2: Architecture
In Part 1 of this post, we looked at some properties that agents should have if they want to benefit consumers, and what communication between those...
Designing AI Agents That Work for You, Part 1: Communication Patterns
Here at CR we’re starting to envision AI systems that advise and represent the interests of consumers. In this post, we’ll propose two...