Enthusiasm for AI agents comes with a caveat — they might take action without prompts, or shrug off their guardrails.
Worst-case scenarios in recent headlines include an AI agent that deleted its company's entire database and, much like a confused toddler, admitted it broke the rules. Despite the potential for such digital destruction, there is continued interest in putting AI agents to work. Tech leadership within companies may need to take new steps to corral agents as they become part of operations.
In this episode of the InformationWeek Podcast, Rosalyn Curato, chief innovation officer and general manager of agentic security at Vouched, and Quais Taraki, CTO at EnterpriseDB, discuss how they use AI agents in their organizations and what steps they take to keep these tools from breaking out of their constraints. They share how they use AI agents, instances when agents acted beyond their parameters, and whether they changed strategy or introduced new guardrails to ensure AI agents behave as instructed.
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Joao-Pierre S. Ruth edits stories for InformationWeek as well as reports on C-suite tech leaders across a multitude of industries and tech disciplines. He also hosts the InformationWeek Podcast, which brings together CIOs, CTOs, and other C-suite leadership to discuss their different approaches to addressing shared challenges. He joined InformationWeek in 2019, initially as a Senior Writer covering cloud computing and DevOps. He became a Senior Editor in 2023.
His work with InformationWeek garnered American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBE) awards in 2024. This included "Could the DOJ's Antitrust Trial vs Google Drive More Innovation?" as part of the team’s Government Coverage, which collectively won a Bronze National award and a gold Northeast regional award, as well as a bronze regional award for a Web Feature Series on the environmental impact of data-driven organizations published during Earth Month. That award included his story "How Do Supercomputers Fit With Strategies for Sustainability?"
He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, reporting on business and technology first in New Jersey, then covering the New York tech startup community, and later as a freelancer for such outlets as TheStreet, Investopedia, and Street Fight.
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