AI Agents - Implications

At which point is it deception if you do not acknowledge an AI Agent that writes in your “voice and tone”? Note, Slack is careful to say it “drafts,” which means the responsibility belongs to the user.

Issues are cropping up with AI notetakers, office subscriptions that employees have no choice but to use, and other AI tools that grant permissions to other AIs hidden in the terms of service. This cross-permission given to agentic AI is difficult to control or switch off.

Worth reading the McKinsey skill partnership report – I find it startling no one defines what they mean by augmentation….and where the fine line is between training an AI agent (this is what happens when you correct a draft), augmenting and keeping your job, and really getting the free time from AI assisting you.

This is what the report says: “As automation is adopted, productivity rises, and people’s roles shift from performing tasks to directing how machines perform them.” Translation – you lose agency and become like a traffic cop or worse, the trainer of AI, or worse, the fall guy.

Also, I find it very interesting that no one knows how to define a skill, and the skills of the future change every year! Assuming a skill is learnt and cultivated – what are we as governments, employers, or educators doing about this?

I am spending a lot more time reading AI-generated work that is neither unique (it lacks the author’s voice) nor shows critical thinking, though it is well curated. I used Google Labs the other day, was impressed with an analogy, and now that is all it keeps throwing at me (seriously?).