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Ep. 7 | The Agent Safety Architecture We Abandoned | Rich Miller

What do you get when you cross a New Mexico cowboy with the early days of email and telecommunications? Answer: Rich Miller, one of the OGs of email and, with his colleague and close friend Jim White, the force behind General Magic’s communications language, Telescript.

Amidst today’s talk of agentic AI, Rich Miller recollects the original agentic concept and how, from the start, safety considerations like identification, authentication, and authorization were front and center rather than relegated to the “we’ll fix it in post” attitude rife among today’s purveyors of a new class of agents…

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