Five Thoughts on AI Agents

There is a lot of excitement around AI Agents.  Here are five questions we're asking ourselves about how AI Agents will be used and managed. SHOW: 918SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #918 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Cut Enterprise IT Support Costs by 30-50% with US CloudSHOW NOTES:Anthropic warns that fully AI employees are a year awayAuthZ Agents ChaosWhy we need to get AuthZ rightAI Agent Gateway and AI Agent MeshAuth in the age of AI Agent (Cloudcast Eps. 885)Trust will make or break AI Agents Introducing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A - Google)Introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP - Anthroopic)Top 9 AI Agent FrameworksHOW WILL WE VIEW AN AI AGENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMANS OR “USERS”[Who] How is an AI agent represented in the context of a person, a group, an organization? [What] How will we audit Agent created data or content? Will we need a way to label Agent-created information?[Where] Will we have agents that are focused on non-human-interactions (e.g. optimizations) vs. human-interactions (e.g. empathy)?[When] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?[Why] Why will we choose an Agent (as the implementation) over another form or working on a problem?[How] Are today’s auth systems able to manage AI agents, or will they need to be re-engineered to deal with different scale, granularity of actions?FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter/X: @cloudcastpodBlueSky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.socialInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpodFEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @EntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow