Jeremy M. Gernand, PhD, CSP, CRE
Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering
John and Willie Leone Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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Why AI agents are like staff you can’t trust


The framing of this article is from the perspective of financial analytics, but I think it applies more broadly: “Why AI agents are like staff you can’t trust” | https://bit.ly/4hJJJ06. 

In engineering and technology development, losing credibility can be the end of one’s career, or at least the end of promotions. The risks are too great. We don’t put public and worker safety and the company’s viability in the hands of an intern, though interns can be valuable team members and can grow into that responsibility with time. Maybe AI models will, too, or maybe they never will, but for now, everything we let them do requires scrutiny.  

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