{"id":1146,"date":"2021-11-03T19:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:52:03","slug":"agency-grace-brogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/agency-grace-brogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency &#8211; Grace Brogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reading on &#8220;Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People&#8221;, describes the process of setting up an &#8220;agent&#8221; in the form of a Google alert. This alert allows the user to have the &#8220;agent&#8221; report back to them through email when a new item matching their predetermined search words appears. To me this interaction between the human counterpart and the AI &#8220;agent&#8221; helps me better understand agency as it feels like a human interaction. The interaction between the human and google alert &#8220;agent&#8221; reminds me of the only context I have encountered the word agent before; secret agent. To me the relationship between a human and their AI agent seems much like that of the relationship between a secret agent and their handler or case officer. Both have their own agency and the relationship is built on one reporting back information to the other. Agency is oartivulay interesting to consider in AI as traditionally agency has been a very human attribute. Although it seems that these agents are mainly human tools that require some human input, further AI agency seems to be the next step in the relationship between humans and technology. This progress continues to blur the line between what is human and what is a machine or technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/previews.123rf.com\/images\/rogistok\/rogistok1812\/rogistok181200059\/126762021-two-secret-agents-whispering-comic-cartoon-pop-art-retro-vector-illustration-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"Two Secret Agents Whispering. Comic Cartoon Pop Art Retro Vector Illustration Drawing Royalty Free Cliparts, Vectors, And Stock Illustration. Image 126762021.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reading on &#8220;Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People&#8221;, describes the process of setting up an &#8220;agent&#8221; in the form of a Google alert. This alert allows the user to have the &#8220;agent&#8221; report back to them through email when a new item matching their predetermined search words appears. To me this interaction between the human counterpart and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/03\/agency-grace-brogan\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}