AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
AI agents are being integrated into workplaces as digital coworkers with humanlike features to encourage collaboration, marketed as efficient and tireless assistants. Though users often feel free to critique them due to their nonhuman nature, emotional attachments may blur accountability, hinder error detection, and pose psychological risks as organizations increasingly depend on autonomous systems.
The research tool agent is having trouble completing the task pipeline. Not quite ready for prime time. It can do simple tasks but is falling down where multiple tasks are chained together. It is in a way, acting like a new hire if you want to take the analogy all the way.
QuoteAgents also don't necessarily fit in the same boxes as human employees, Bedard says, in their abilities or their weaknesses.
True that, so for now my agent waits for me to fix it. Which I will, but I have been hitting the keyboard hard, and need some distance to see what really needs fixing in it.