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How can we trust our agents?

In my talk I will argue that we can do much better by relying in a systematic way on types and capabilities.

Martin Odersky
The inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend
About This Talk

AI agents are taking over many tasks that required humans before. This could be very good for productivity but how can we possibly trust our agents? There are a multitude of known ways an agent could go wrong, including prompt injections or plain hallucinations. The current techniques to control agent behavior are patchy and rudimentary, they certainly don't instill trust.

In my talk I will argue that we can do much better by relying in a systematic way on types and capabilities. We can use them to make not only bad states but also bad actions unrepresentable. This points us to a possible future where an inherently untrustworthy LLM agent can be trusted to stay within defined parameters when put in the right environment.

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