Something for the weekend - 'Who does number 2 work for?!' How agents will challenge enterprise boundaries

It feels to me — should the greater good have any say in the agentic debate — that the natural endpoint of agentic technology will be the creation of deeply personalized systems that understand and augment the individual strengths and weaknesses of each and every one of us. At least that’s the vibe I get from the luminaries of the industry.

But if that's our goal — for agents to maximize human potential — then surely it also stands to reason that these agents must belong to us as individuals, not to the big corporations we shop from or work for. They must be deeply personal, knowledgeable, have shared values, and — most of all — respect our absolute right to privacy.

Having seen what social media has done to pervert the incentives of online discourse, I'm pretty sure nobody wants those same big-tech algorithms twiddling our innermost thoughts for outrage and engagement ...