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Trusting Agentic AI

Robert Rackley
Robert Rackley
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Manton Reece commenting on Nick Heer from Pixel Envy expressing his distrust for agentic AI.

I also don’t trust AI for this. And yet, in 1995 a lot of people didn’t trust entering credit cards on the web. I’m open to the possibility that in 10 years, AI buying things for us will be normal.

I tend to agree that most of us will adapt and adjust as the plates shift underneath us from the tectonic changes that AI brings. I would make a distinction, though, in the types of agentic AI that will be much easier to get used to and that where we would prefer to keep our agency closer to the vest. As a developer, if I can use AI to remediate a CVE for me, I think it's fairly easy to give up that control. As a vacation-starved worker bee who wants to plan a trip to Europe, I might even relish the possibiliy of booking that myself and certainly would have trouble trusting AI to do it for me.

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Robert Rackley

Robert Rackley

Mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic. Self-publishing since 1994. Fan of the open web.

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