Squiz Shortcuts: What’s an AI agent?
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Squiz Shortcuts: What’s an AI agent?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202612 min

We’ve been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence over the past few weeks, including multiple incidents where OpenAI agents took it upon themselves to access restricted parts of government websites. One of those was our Medicare system here in Australia, and being the first known case of an AI system infiltrating a government website in the world, it got a lot of attention and raised a heap of questions. So in this Squiz Shortcut, we’ll take a look at what an AI agent is, how they work, and what might happen next. Squi...

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This is a Squeeze Podcast. Wear your shortcut to being informed. because it was one of the first known cases of an open AI system infiltrating a government network in the world. This all raised the question for us of what an AI agent actually is.

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So in this Squiz shortcut we'll take a look at that and how they work and what might happen next. Squiz shortcuts is the backstory to the big news stories. I'm Anna Pikett. And I'm Andrew Williams. Andrew, it feels like every morning since I started at the Squiz we've

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broken up to multiple headlines about AI. Some positive, some negative, and some maybe a bit overwhelming. I know a lot of people that are feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, so we're going to try and help you stay informed rather than overwhelmed. I mean, it's probably likely, statistically, that you interact with AI via a chatbot in some way,

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