What exactly are AI agents today and what could they be?
About this Event
Join us for the third and final presentation in a three-part summer speaker series, "Critical AI Literacy for Information Work: Agentic AI"
Speaker: Katharine Jarmul, Data Scientist and Privacy Activist
Title: What exactly are AI agents today and what could they be?
*This webinar will be recorded
Description:
In this talk, we'll look at how agentic systems are designed today and by whom. We'll explore Claude Code as our working example. We'll annotate together the main design choices and how they affect the privacy, security and user agency / sovereignty.
Then we'll shift and ask, is this how these systems must work? We'll investigate participatory design and AI as counter examples to today's systems. What could agentic systems do if they were designed by us and for us? What would be different and what might we keep?
I expect vivid discussion and imaginations, so bring wild ideas and questions.