AI agents
Before AI sends an email for you, what should it do?
Drafting a message and sending it are different kinds of action. Sending can create commitments, share information, or affect a relationship.
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Imagine an assistant booking travel or replenishing groceries. The right boundary might depend on cost, reversibility, and how much you trust it.
A spending limit is only one dimension of financial authority. The recipient, number of transactions, recurrence and conditions also matter. OWASP’s agent guidance supports scoped tool permissions; this poll asks what kind of delegation people would find acceptable within that broader design problem.
An agent can buy office supplies up to a small limit. Is that limit per item, per order or per month? Ten individually permitted orders could create a commitment you never intended.
A clear budget can make routine delegation genuinely useful.
A small purchase can start a subscription or expose sensitive information. Price alone may not capture the risk.
Background reading for the tradeoff. Scenarios and discussion questions are editorial examples.
Practical guidance on tool permissions, memory isolation, oversight and agent failure handling.
A framework for identifying, measuring and managing generative AI risks across the system lifecycle.
Sources reviewed 13 September 2026. Product documentation can change. How we use evidence
Drafting a message and sending it are different kinds of action. Sending can create commitments, share information, or affect a relationship.
Cleaning a workspace can be helpful. A mistaken deletion may be difficult to reverse.
Writing code, testing it, and publishing it affect different people and systems.