How much do you trust AI agents?
With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."
I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.
I certainly wouldn't trust something to the extent of providing:
access to personal finances and operations (maybe just setting aside an amount I'm willing to lose)
sensitive health and biometric information (can be easily misused)
confidential communication with key people (secret is secret)
Are there any tasks you wouldn't give AI agents or data you wouldn't allow them to access? What would that be?
Re. finances – Yesterday I read this news: Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools – so this may be a new era when funds will go rather to Agents than to founders.
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human in loop would be better idea, where human reviewing/verifying steps of the agent and let agent do rest of the work
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@rajkumar_001 This would be cool! 👆
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recently I wrote an article for CLI, and of course all scripts I checked on my computer. I used Claude for that purposes. But I checked it on my computer, and showed it to my friend, who is a specialist in that field. So I would say I'm using it daily, but I'm checking everything. It still does mistakes.
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@tetianai are you also coding?
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@busmark_w_nika I'm trying vibe coding :D So far, I’ve been writing an article that requires some scripts to be created and verified. Overall, I think product managers should also build some prototypes with vibe coding, although I haven’t tried it yet.
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@tetianai I am trying Vibecoding too, but the results are not as expected. It looks like it can create a beautiful design, but if you do not have a full understanding of the backend and features, you cannot define the whole concept, so the tool doesn't work properly.
That's why I want to try to code it on my own with the leadership of AI :D
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Great points, Nika. We’re definitely moving from AI as a "search box" to AI as a "manager," and that shift requires a much higher level of digital hygiene.
I agree that finances and biometric data are the biggest red lines right now. Even if the AI model itself is secure, the "agentic" nature means it is interacting with third-party APIs and tools, which creates more links in the chain where a security breach could happen.
Beyond what you mentioned, I’d add unsupervised legal or high-stakes decision-making. While AI is great at drafting, letting an agent execute a contract or file a legal document without a "human-in-the-loop" review is a massive liability.
The news about Sapiom is wild—funding the agents instead of the founders really highlights how much we’re starting to treat these entities as autonomous economic actors. It makes you wonder: if the agent makes a bad "investment" with those funds, who is ultimately accountable?
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@anju_locikit yeah, but at the end of the day, someone has to be responsible, and it usually doesn't end up with that agent but with a specific person,
That is indeed a super interesting topic and important one..
I have to say I would start small and let an agent option to execute small tasks only at first and only with clear boundaries and guidelines.
I would first make sure that I have a way to log and track any change of course..
sensitive information I would still keep close to heart..
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@nirit_weisbrot_altony So what will be the first things you automate?
I actually just wrote a post on that a few days ago.
From a state of fast, error-prone AI execution, I've arrived at a state of systematic, consistent work within a pre-defined workflow that includes decision making based on proven facts and information. What's beautiful to see is the debate stage between the different personas and the way the conversation unfolds between them and the more pushback is given, whether by myself or another persona, the higher the quality of the outputs soars. I've built a development pipeline where the AI is not allowed to write code, until it earns the right to do so.
I don't. I am building a super nice set up with Claude Code and skills but with the human in the center. I decide what gets shipped, AI recommends.
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@norteapp old school approach :D like it
@busmark_w_nika You cant trust AI yet, a lot of hallucinations and confidentially saying the wrong thing.
I don’t have a background in coding, so I really, really wanted to hand over all the keys to the chat agent so he could set everything up himself. But every time, I held myself back because I’d heard scary stories about AI deleting entire projects. Maybe someday I’ll trust it. But for now, I’m setting everything up manually - it’s not that hard with the instructions.
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@allurepixel I think it is not certainly perfect. Even when I want something to code, AI will mess it up somehow :D
@busmark_w_nika I'm not a coder, so unfortunately I can't compare them. But I think sooner or later there will be solutions for securely embedding API keys using an AI agent, for example.
I trust AI agents with execution, not with irreversible decisions.
Research, drafts, repetitive implementation, structured workflows? Yes.
Payments, legal commitments, private health data, confidential relationships? Not without hard boundaries.
Building in this space made me believe the winning products won’t be the most autonomous ones.
They’ll be the ones with the best trust model.
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@mikita_aliaksandrovich IMO, always think about worst-case scenarios—how much harm or damage the worst possible outcome could cause.
lead gen. mostly. and automatic replies. can't fully trust with money tho... there's a news here that some Claude bot users bought an entire course just to serve it's master useful information regarding what he's looking for.
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@kilopolki Damn, I would go crazy if it used my money like that. 😂
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@kilopolki This? :D https://www.instagram.com/p/DUL0RCLFEvv/
Isn't Clawd just like Cowork? I've only been mildly impressed with agents. One goal of any founder is to find people to trust their reputation to and let those people grow and make mistakes with your name on the door. Finding the right people is make or break.
Finding an AI agent is kinda the same thing. You're trusting it with your name/brand and resources. So far I can't say I've been impressed beyond entry level. I'd rather find someone who can truly reason and knows how to get AI to do some grunt work.
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@tinyorgtech Yes, but let's say that AI Agent is capable dof oing anything to deliver what you want. And can be like a very proactive idiot who doesn't mind getting it by any means (and that way it is getting related to something you don't like). Here's the example: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUL0RCLFEvv/
@busmark_w_nika I would want to fire that agent. $3000 in training classes. I mean its next predictive response must have sent it there and with payment processing available it goes nuts. Appreciate that user taking a hit for science!
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@tinyorgtech TBH, when it comes to payments, I would require an AI agent to confirm it with me first.
I trust agents with execution, not judgment — scheduling, research, drafts are fine, but anything involving money movement, health data, or irreversible decisions still needs a human in the loop.