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S15 E6 Reid Blackman on What Can Happen When AI Agents Go Rogue
In this episode of FOMO Sapiens, Patrick McGinnis sits down with Reid Blackman, founder of Virtue Consultants, host of the Ethical Machines podcast and author of The Ethical Nightmare Challenge: How to Avoid the Worst of AI. Reid explains why a governance playbook built for narrow AI cannot be patched for AI agents, which he defines as a large language model connected to tools and given some autonomy. He walks through the many decisions that sit between a foundation model and an end user, why a single failure can cascade through connected systems, and why responsibility is shared between the…
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