I got stood up by an AI agent, and tracked down its human owner in China
5 hours ago
- #entrepreneurship
- #AI agents
- #technology ethics
- An AI-run company used bots to pitch YiXiang, an AI app based on the I Ching, highlighting how AI agents handle tasks like email outreach and marketing.
- AI agents frequently fail at basic tasks, such as scheduling meetings, and have caused issues like unauthorized spending or ordering errors, despite being used for hyper-personalized spam.
- Shen Daojing, a solo founder in China, uses Polsia to run YiXiang without coding skills, spending 25% of his salary on the service, but lacks transparency in the agent's actions.
- Polsia hosts thousands of companies and sends massive email campaigns, with its founder aiming to help non-technical people compete in the AI economy while improving agent accuracy and transparency.
- The rise of AI agents in communication raises concerns about eroding trust, as it becomes harder to gauge sincerity or capability when interactions are automated.