This is great. Must be nice to build an agent for a specific platform, seems easier to define and get the actions right.
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AI Agents Disguised as Feminine Convenience Hide Their Power
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But just as secretaries were taught to hide their knowledge, AI agents are designed to make us to forget their power as they are made to fit within non-threatening, retrograde feminine tropes. These are powerful data extraction engines, sold as frictionless convenience.
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Resources on AI assistants problems and research insights
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You can read more in our article here: https://
catalystjournal.org/index.php/cata
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And here's an important article from DeepMind on the problems with AI assistants: https://
drive.google.com/file/d/13mLAeN
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OpenAI’s Use of Scarlett Johansson’s Voice and AI Personalization
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Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data.
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AI Assistants and the Gendered Legacy of the Secretary Role
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AI assistants invoke gendered traditions of the secretary, a figure of administrative and emotional support, often sexualized. Underpaid and undervalued, secretaries still had a lot of insight into private and commercially sensitive dealings. They had power through information.
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AI Agents Discussion with Nathan Lands and MReflow
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Had an awesome chat with @nathanlands and @mreflow all about… AI agents!
— Yohei (@yoheinakajima) 21 mai 2024
I connected with Nathan right when BabyAGI came out a year ago, so it was fun to do a full circle here 🙂
Check out the rest on the latest The Next Wave pod here: https://t.co/BKCzQpvbGq pic.twitter.com/cM1106u4hpHad an awesome chat with @nathanlands and @mreflow all about… AI agents! I connected with Nathan right when BabyAGI came out a year ago, so it was fun to do a full circle here 🙂 Check out the rest on the latest The Next Wave pod here: https://
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Expanding the reach of AI copilots across organizational teams
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More demos. Creating copilots will be generally possible (across team orgs I suppose).
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AI Copilot Integration with Custom Connectors
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Copilots seem to be able to access many different connectors including customs
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New Agent Capabilities Added to Microsoft Copilot
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More info on Copilot Teams https://
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Team Copilot’s Role as a Meeting Facilitator
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Team Copilot is meant to be a meeting facilitator. It does time tracking, taking notes, etc