Yes, however first there is an understanding involved when the other operator is intelligent [1] secondly there are consequences which matter to living being which don’t apply to an agent. Humans needs to eat and take care of family, for which they need a job so have lot less freedom to disobey explicit commands and expect to do those things.
Even if an agent becomes truly intelligent you cannot control it well if they do not have hunger, pain love or any number of motivation drive[2].
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Depending on the type of red button you can always design safe guards (human or agent) , we after all haven’t launched nuclear war heads either by mistake or by malicious actor (yet).[3]
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[1] which humans are and however much the industry likes to think otherwise agents are not
[2] Every pet owner with a pet that have limited food drive will tell you how hard it train their dog versus the ones that have one, even if they are an intelligent breed or specimen.
[3] Yes we have come alarmingly close few times , but no one has actually pressed the red button so to speak .