Scandinavian Product Podcast #32 AI Agents, what founders need to know about building AI products, and Ethical implications of AI | Morten Rand-Hendriksen (Linkedin)
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Apr 6, 2025 Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Principal Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning and an authority on tech ethics, dives deep into the complexities surrounding AI agents. He discusses the hype versus the harm of AI, revealing the pitfalls startups face. The conversation addresses the risks of outsourcing decision-making to context-challenged machines and critiques current content creation models. Morten emphasizes the need for human oversight in AI, especially as society grapples with the authenticity of AI-generated content and the ethical dilemmas it brings.
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AI Agent Unpredictability
- AI agents lack critical thinking and are non-deterministic, making their responses unpredictable.
- Building reliable AI agent systems requires accounting for every possible error, which is impossible.
Using Language Models Effectively
- Treat language models as interfaces between users and complex systems.
- Focus on using AI to reduce human workload, not replace human analysis.
AI Agent Blast Radius
- AI agents' actions have an infinite blast radius, impacting unpredictably.
- Accountability is crucial; a human must oversee or validate agent actions.