Stephen Downes

Martin Fowler reports, "I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. The LLM has access to the user's email account, reads all the emails, decides which emails to ignore, drafts some emails for the user to approve, and replies to some emails autonomously." As enthusiastic as I am about AI, I agree with him that it's far too early to trust agentic email with real access to my email, and not only because of the security risks. I mean, I can't even trust my anti-spam services to keep out all the spam and only the spam. I'm not ready to let it make statements on my behalf. And oh yeah, the security risk.