Will AI Become the Operating System?
In short: From letter-perfect text commands to the Xerox Alto to today's tool-using AI agents, this film weighs the evidence for and against our forecast that an AI layer will become the main way people use a computer.
A 2:06 short film in the series “Tomorrow's World”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: arXiv (Cornell University), preprint by Deep Shah, “The Agent Operating System (AOS): A Reference Operating Architecture for Distributed Agentic Systems”; Computer History Museum (CHM), “Xerox Alto - CHM Revolution”; IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), “50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World”; Model Context Protocol project (specification repository on GitHub, modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol; specification revision 2025-06-18), “modelcontextprotocol/docs/specification/2025-06-18/server/tools.mdx at main · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol”; arXiv (Cornell University); paper by Tianbao Xie, Tao Yu and co-authors (OSWorld), “OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments”; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), “Technical Blog: Strengthening AI Agent Hijacking Evaluations”.
Sources used in this film
- arXiv (Cornell University), preprint by Deep Shah — The Agent Operating System (AOS): A Reference Operating Architecture for Distributed Agentic Systems · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM) — Xerox Alto - CHM Revolution · View →
- IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) — 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World · View →
- Model Context Protocol project (specification repository on GitHub, modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol; specification revision 2025-06-18) — modelcontextprotocol/docs/specification/2025-06-18/server/tools.mdx at main · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol · View →
- arXiv (Cornell University); paper by Tianbao Xie, Tao Yu and co-authors (OSWorld) — OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments · View →
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) — Technical Blog: Strengthening AI Agent Hijacking Evaluations · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: arXiv (Cornell University), preprint by Deep Shah: The Agent Operating System (AOS): A Reference Operating Architecture for Distributed Agentic Systems
- Also: Computer History Museum: Computer History Museum
- Also: IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers): 50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
- Also: Model Context Protocol project (specification repository on GitHub, modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol; specifica: modelcontextprotocol/docs/specification/2025-06-18/server/tools.mdx at main · modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol
- Also: arXiv (Cornell University); paper by Tianbao Xie, Tao Yu and co-authors (OSWorld): OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
- Also: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI): Technical Blog: Strengthening AI Agent Hijacking Evaluations
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