Cloning Yourself: How to Use AI Agents to Responsibly Scale an Army of Virtual Volunteers

AI agents are autonomous robots that can perform complex tasks according to the prompts, context, guardrails and tools their human architects authorize them to access. Sierra, Meta and a cohort of prominent tech firms have debuted a concept called the Personal Agent Protocol. The fundamental idea is that there should be a safe, responsible, controllable and accessible ways for AI agents to do clearly defined tasks on behalf of humans while restricting AI agents from introducing chaos to an otherwise orderly environment. In Ahead of the Curve, author Sam Fankuchen asks: If we could create agents in our image to advance our missions, productivity, creativity and reach, what would we have them do on behalf of ourselves, our organizations and the volunteering sector itself?

Available December 18