Oh I think I misread your comment slightly; I would not be interested in an agent that could do something dumb with my routing number, but if somehow there was an agent that I trusted as much as, eg, the payroll department at my employer, I would absolutely want and use that agent; I would love to have an agent that can handle all of the boring parts of my life such as paying bills, scheduling maintenance, dealing with bureaucracy, etc.

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johnsmith1840 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Dumb's not department, really just a question of how good an AI you want to use. An AI will always be able to do something dumb, just like people.

I just mean an AI that could use a routing number or SSN and gmail/slack/whatever at the same time without a leak.

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jagraff 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yea I think being able not to leak is the bare minimum? But it really depends on how good it is at specific applications; I wouldn't give a tax-preparation agent my SSN unless I was confident that it was no more likely to misfile my taxes than a professional tax preparer.

In other words, the risk of harm doesn't need to be zero, just less than the equivalent risk of a human with similar skillset. So I'm comfortable riding in a waymo, and not comfortable giving chatgpt my SSN at this moment in time, but I expect that within 5-10 years (assuming no doom) I will trust some AI agent with my SSN because they will be better at handling sensitive info than humans

	▲	fragmede an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Then again, given the Equifax/Experian data breaches, your SSN is already out there and probably hoovered up as training data already