Crivello: Users Add Delays to Fake Google Accounts to Disguise AI
Florent Crivello · Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!) · Nov 15, 2024 · at 7:38
Florent Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy.ai, describes user behaviors around configuring AI agents for enterprise scheduling and email workflows.
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“One pattern we've started to see is people provisioning accounts for their AI agents. And so in particular, Google Workspace accounts. So for example, Lindy can be used as a scheduling assistant. And so you can just CC her To your emails when you're trying to find time with someone, and just like a human assistant, she's going to go back and forth, you know, for availability and so forth. Very often, people don't want the other party to know that it's an AI. So it's actually funny, they introduce delays, they ask the agent to wait before replying, so it's not too obvious that it's an AI. And they provision an account on Google Suite, which gives them like, 10 bucks a month or something like that.”
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