Tech Tips

AI agents can do more than answer questions. Give one access to the right tools, and it may search the web, edit files, update a project board, or carry out a series of steps on your behalf. That can save time, but it also changes the question from “Is this answer correct?” to “What can this system do, and what happens if it gets something wrong?” The practical answer is not to trust AI agents blindly or avoid them altogether. Trust them with specific, limited tasks , and keep human approval for actions that could expose private information, affect customers, spend money, or be difficult to undo. That distinction matters. An agent can be useful without being dependable enough to run unsupervised. And even when an agent’s actions look deliberate, that does not prove it has human-like intentions. The more useful questions are what it was allowed to do, what instructions it received, and whether anyone could catch and stop a mistake. What makes an AI agent different from a chatbot? A chat...