Agents in 2030

End-of-lesson check

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1. Which sentence best captures the main idea of 'Agents in 2030'?

   1. By 2030, most knowledge work will involve some agent.
   2. Tools and goals are unnecessary for agent design
   3. Agents should always run without limits or oversight
   4. Agents and chatbots are the same thing in every way

2. Which of the following is part of 'Three trends'?

   1. Hide tool calls from the operator
   2. Disable safety checks for speed
   3. Agents getting cheaper and faster every quarter. Agents specializing for specific industries. More regulation on agent use in high-stakes decisions.
   4. Use the most expensive model regardless of fit

3. Which of the following is part of 'Three things to learn now'?

   1. Approve all actions automatically
   2. Ignore cost when scaling
   3. How to instruct agents clearly
   4. Never log what the agent did

4. Which of the following is part of 'Review date'?

   1. Ignore cost when scaling
   2. Use the most expensive model regardless of fit
   3. Disable safety checks for speed
   4. Reviewed in 2026. Treat fast-changing product names, prices, availability, and policy details as examples to verify before use.

5. What is 'agentic AI' in this context?

   1. A trick to bypass approvals
   2. A core concept covered in Agents in 2030
   3. A reason to skip all logging
   4. A way to disable the agent's tools

6. What is 'automation' in this context?

   1. A core concept covered in Agents in 2030
   2. A reason to skip all logging
   3. A way to disable the agent's tools
   4. A trick to bypass approvals

7. What is 'displacement' in this context?

   1. A trick to bypass approvals
   2. A way to disable the agent's tools
   3. A core concept covered in Agents in 2030
   4. A reason to skip all logging

8. Which prediction about agents in 2030 is most reasonable to plan for today?

   1. Agents will disappear entirely
   2. Agents will replace every human job
   3. Agents will handle more multi-step work, raising the bar for oversight and design
   4. Agents will be exactly like 2025 chatbots

9. Why is it dangerous to give an agent access to your email and calendar without scoped permissions?

   1. Scopes only matter for paid accounts
   2. It will refuse to work
   3. Scoped permissions slow the model down
   4. Broad access means a single misstep can send the wrong message or wipe events

10. An agent quietly retries a failed payment 50 times overnight. What design principle was missing?

    1. Bounded retries with human notification on repeated failure
    2. A larger model
    3. A bigger context window
    4. More creative prompting

11. What is the safest first place to deploy a brand new agent?

    1. Inside a critical billing system
    2. Production, against real customers
    3. On a public server with no auth
    4. A sandbox or low-stakes task with reversible actions

12. What is the most reliable way to keep an autonomous agent from going off the rails on a long task?

    1. Trust the model to know when to stop
    2. Set a clear goal, a step budget, and review checkpoints
    3. Disable its tools so it can only think
    4. Run it for as many steps as possible without checking in

13. Why is keeping a human in the loop valuable for high-stakes agent actions?

    1. It replaces the model entirely
    2. It catches mistakes before they cause real-world harm
    3. It removes the need for any logging
    4. It speeds the agent up

14. What is the best response when an agent suggests an action you do not understand?

    1. Run it twice to be sure
    2. Reject everything and stop using the agent
    3. Approve it to keep things moving
    4. Ask the agent to explain the action and its expected effect before approving

15. Why is logging every tool call an agent makes a baseline requirement?

    1. Logs are only for legal teams
    2. Logs replace the need for testing
    3. Logs are needed to debug, audit, and explain agent behavior to users
    4. Logs make the model run faster