Shomit Ghose
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“incomplete records and won't be able to recognize a dangerous interaction or a worsening condition before the action has already taken effect,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose warns that AI managing prescriptions broadly may act on incomplete records and fail to recognize dangerous interactions or worsening conditions.
“In the end, you want to ask yourself: Does the human need to be in the loop?”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says people should ask themselves whether a human needs to be involved when using AI agents for consequential tasks.
“Those are good things, but bad things would be moving money, making trades, filing forms. All those things should stay manual at this point.”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says moving money, making trades, and filing forms are tasks that should stay manual at this point.
“anytime [your] health, wealth, or privacy are involved,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says you may not want to let an AI agent make decisions when health, wealth, or privacy are involved because agentic AI is still in its infancy.
“You want to be really specific and say, 'I am crafting a trading strategy, and these are the kind of things I'm trying to optimize for,'”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose advises being specific when dictating trading strategies to AI agents, including what you are trying to optimize for.
“You can have agents do interesting things for you, like categorize your spending, or flag unusual charges, or model what-if scenarios,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says agents can do useful things like categorizing spending and flagging unusual charges.
“treat all data as being equal,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says bots treat all data as equal, which can lead to misleading guidance if they encounter inaccurate or subjective information.
“The bot only knows your context,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose explains that AI agents operate literally and only know the context you provide them.
“So that as [the agent] ingests information, it can treat it with the right context.”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says being specific about your strategy helps the agent ingest information and treat it with the right context.
“use limited permission accounts,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose recommends users only allow agents to use limited permission accounts to reduce privacy risks.
“should still come back to me,”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says booking flights and hotels should still come back to him so he maintains final say over major financial decisions.
“It cannot infer, as we humans are able to do, because of instinct and culture and education.”
Shomit Ghose · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-12
Ghose says bots cannot infer things the way humans can through instinct, culture, and education.