Evening when deciding the scope to be entrusted to AI
What AI can do is updated almost every day. However, when we look at the materials used this time, we find that what separates companies, governments, and individuals from making decisions is not the level of ability, but rather the fact that it has not been decided how much to entrust, who is responsible, and how to measure effectiveness. Anthropic, for example, has scaled back on new hires, while U.S. banks such as Citi have begun restricting AI agents' access to accounts. At the same time, moves to expand and narrow the scope of responsibility are occurring side by side. Job loss numbers, regulatory targets, costs and effects in health care, and underlying research trends are all on the same page. I will read this half-day article along those lines.
Anthropic has scaled back on new hires, India Today reports. The headline says, ``AI does 6 times more work than humans.'' This means that the companies that develop AI have themselves moved to narrow the scope of their reliance on humans. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that US banks, including Citi, are moving to restrict access to accounts by AI agents. The former is about increasing the number of tasks entrusted to AI, and the latter is about tightening the range of tasks entrusted to AI. Around the same time, Anthropic has cut back on hiring and Citi and others have restricted account access. This shows that the choice between expansion and suppression is not determined solely by what AI can do.
If the reader is applying this to their own company, deciding whether to reflect the workload of AI in personnel planning and deciding on the range of assets that will be exposed to AI need to be treated as separate decisions. In the bank example, the line is drawn first from the account where the impact of failure is greatest. Delegating the amount of work and handing over authority are not the same thing.
Articles that reconsider the role of people also stand out. Pipeline Magazine covers ``the importance of human involvement to bring out the power of AI,'' and Bentley University takes the position that ``human skills are important even in the age of AI.'' At first glance, the situation in which companies are selective about hiring and media outlets that advocate human involvement are at odds with each other. However, since Anthropic is reported to have reduced the number of new employees, and Citi and others are reported to have narrowed down the authority of agents, it can be seen that the work required of people is shifting from carrying out tasks to checking the output of AI and deciding how much to delegate. Human involvement is beginning to be talked about as a condition for bringing out the power of AI.
