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Supervising AI Agents: The Rules of the Road
How to set boundaries when an AI is acting in the real world.
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- 1The big idea
- 2permission
- 3reversibility
- 4oversight
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Section 1
The big idea
When you give an agent the ability to take actions, you're trusting it with real consequences. The teens (and adults) who use agents well think about permissions like a manager would: what can it do alone, what needs your sign-off, what's totally off-limits, and how do you undo mistakes?
Some examples
- Give agents read-only access first — let them propose, you execute.
- For irreversible actions (sends, payments, deletes), require human approval.
- Run agents in a sandbox or test account before production.
- Always have an undo path: backups, version control, drafts not sends.
Try it!
Pick one agent task. List which actions you'd auto-approve, which need review, and which are forbidden.
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