Risk & safety
Produce vs Act
Does an unattended AI act, or only produce and hand to a person?
An unattended AI does one of two things
Produce
Safe to leave running
It makes something - a draft, a summary, a shortlist - and hands it to a person to decide.
Act
Far higher stakes
It does the thing itself - sends the email, books the slot, moves the money. Same tool.
Keep unattended systems producing, and let people act.
The care point
What to be wary of was never AI running while you're away - it's AI acting while you're away, on something you'd have wanted to check first.
When to use Deciding how far to let your AI hire go: let it draft for your sign-off before you trust it to act on its own. Keep unattended systems on the Produce side; let people act.
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