AI agents are moving from demonstrations into operational workflows. The shift creates value, but also new failure modes involving permissions, data quality, unintended actions, and unclear ownership.
A sound deployment defines scope, approval thresholds, logs, rollback procedures, and a human accountable for the result. Autonomy should expand only as evidence earns trust.
About the author
Rev. Dr. Gerald F. Poe Jr.
Founder and Chief Executive Consultant of PoeTech Global Consulting. Technologist, strategist, veteran, aviator, and cross-sector advisor with more than three decades of experience spanning AI, energy, sustainable data centers, telecommunications, UAS, healthcare innovation, public infrastructure, and venture development.