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Previous episode The agent loop: how an AI agent keeps going until the job is done

How AI agents work: an AI that can only write, and still gets things done

AI agent permissions: who decides what an agent may do

An AI agent can write a message and send it to your friends before you see it. So who decides if a tool may run: the model, the app or you?

  1. 1 Go back to round three, the moment the model wrote its request to the messages tool. Nothing has gone out yet.round 3the modelrequesttool: messagesto: Miva, Ronotext: Rain on Saturday,picnic moved to Sundaythe apptool: messages

    Go back to round three, the moment the model wrote its request to the messages tool. Nothing has gone out yet.

  2. 2 The model writes whatever request fits best, and it can be wrong: a forecast misread, a message to the wrong person. Nothing makes sure it stops itself. So what can?the modelrequesttool: messagesto: Mila, Ronotext: Rain on Saturday,picnic moved to Sunday?

    The model writes whatever request fits best, and it can be wrong: a forecast misread, a message to the wrong person. Nothing makes sure it stops itself. So what can?

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