AIW 101 · For everyone
AI at Work: Agents
Using and building AI agents at work: what agents do while you are busy, what they can see, instructions hidden in mail and forms, and how to check, stop and retire one.
10 lessons · about 41 min · quiz · certificate
Course outline
Lessons
Part 1Using agents6 lessons · 26 min
- 1What office agents do while you are busyHow one request to an agent becomes many actions · Agents that start work on a schedule or a trigger · Agents that join a team with their own account3:51
- 2Choosing the work to hand an agentWhich tasks suit an agent and which stay with you · How an agent running a shop gave its stock away · How to brief an agent on the job and its limits4:13
- 3What your agent can seeWhy an agent reaches everything you can open · When sensitivity labels and data loss rules fail · Connecting only the accounts a task needs4:25
- 4Instructions hidden in mail, invitations and formsWhy an agent can take orders from what it reads · How a web form made a sales agent leak data · Attacks seen on the web and how you respond4:42
- 5When an agent acts in your nameWhose name is on what an agent sends or books · How a personal agent broke a gym's booking rules · Keeping approval on for what leaves your organization4:21
- 6Checking, stopping and reporting an agentReading what an agent asks you to approve · How an agent lost an instruction and kept deleting · Checking an agent's work and reporting problems4:35
Part 2Building agents4 lessons · 14 min
- 7Before you build an agent for othersWhat changes when others use an agent you built · Setting the limits and disclosures of a shared agent · When a chatbot's false claims count against a firm4:26
- 8Credentials, knowledge and sharing in an agent you buildWhose credentials an agent you build runs on · What an agent's knowledge files reveal to its users · Who can use your agent and what it connects to4:41
- 9Running and retiring an agent you builtReading an agent's runs and checking its logs · Changing an agent safely and switching it off · Handing an agent over or retiring it4:00
- 10The habits for agents you use and agents you build1:18
- Final quizOpens when every lesson is done.
- CertificateA dated record of completion, issued when you pass the quiz.