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AI Agents on the Shop Floor: The Upside Everyone Sells, the Risks Few Map (Week 28 · Part I)
An agent that only recommends is a colleague you can overrule. An agent that acts is a colleague with its hands on the machine. This episode holds both halves of that sentence at once, the value and the danger, because most of the 2026 hype skips the second.
The upside is real: agents collapse the detection-to-action gap from hours to seconds, acting within safe limits in predictive maintenance, real-time quality, and exception handling. But the moment an agent can move a machine, six risk categories go live, unsafe actions, integration and cascading failures, governance gaps, cybersecurity…
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