Agent Trust, Oversight and Control (The Agents Season, Episode 9)

Linear Digressions by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

Jun 15, 202600:25:41Technology

Capabilities get all the attention when it comes to AI agents — but what happens when a highly capable agent makes a bad decision in the real world? Trust, oversight, and control are the unglamorous but critically import...

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