Stronger models and cheaper tools are helping a new generation of bots handle travel bookings, grocery orders, party plans and even recover forgotten cash. That gives them more to do than just emails—and gives users more freedom in what they can hand over.
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How are other assistive or administrative software apps, VAs, EAs and so on responding? How is data security handled where AI agents access personal information to “sort a life out”? How are psychologists responding to people using these apps for life laundry, noting “learned helplessness” and “conscious/unconscious incompetence”?
Both of the Agentic AI user and the apps it interacts with…
Do application servers recognise and distinguish an Agentic AI interaction from a real human one? Not just government and enterprise apps but small-scale ones also.