Funeral Homes, Shrimp Farms and Unpaid Invoices: Where AI Agents Are Really Working
Forbes has listed twenty AI agents doing real work: a funeral home’s after-hours calls, shrimp farms, unpaid invoices. What they tell us, and what to do this week.
Forbes has listed twenty AI agents doing real work: a funeral home’s after-hours calls, shrimp farms, unpaid invoices. What they tell us, and what to do this week.
Xi wants AI kept under human control, Trump calls the warnings a hoax, and our Prime Minister says the Medicare agent “didn’t accept no”. All three talk about it as if it were a creature. It’s a tool, and the question that matters is who was holding it, and why it took 84 days for anyone to say so.
AUSTRAC found the same names across unrelated loan files. When trust breaks down in organisations it’s never the trust that broke. It’s the layer nobody checks.