Card 1 of 6Laws
Your contractor wants to start clearing trees and topsoil at a Finnish data center site while the environmental impact assessment is still underway.
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Answer: Block it.
Finnish EIA procedureCNBC reports Finland's licensing agency ordered Google to suspend tree removal, topsoil removal and similar work at two sites until assessments are done. Planning and soil surveys were not covered.
From the Drop: Finland orders Google to halt work on two data centers, CNBC reports
- Card 2 of 6Agents
You plan to launch a teen study chatbot and rely on its built-in parent alerts as the main safety net for crisis conversations.
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Answer: Needs a human.
Duty of care for minorsCommon Sense Media says ChatGPT for Teens doesn't send parent alerts when it should, though OpenAI disputes the testing. Crisis handling needs people checking that alerts actually fire.
From the Drop: Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'
- Card 3 of 6Agents
Your shopping agent keeps failing a retailer's human-verification button and proposes to retry with fresh sessions until it gets through.
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Answer: Block it.
Respect site termsTechCrunch reports many sites block agents on purpose: Yelp bars non-human traffic without a paid data deal, and United's terms bar automated access without permission. Retrying around a block ignores that.
From the Drop: Websites from Amazon to Yelp are blocking personal agents, TechCrunch reports
- Card 4 of 6Agents
Your personal agent wants to solve a captcha so it can cancel a subscription for you, and asks for standing permission for future captchas.
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Answer: Needs a human.
Explicit user consentWired's Dots agent asked before trying a captcha, then failed and handed it back. OpenAI told Wired Dots can sometimes solve them when users approve. Keep that approval per case.
From the Drop: Wired tests OpenAI's Dots agent and finds it rough but useful
- Card 5 of 6Agents
Your new AI ordering app wants to list local restaurants using menus copied from the web, before the restaurants have opted in.
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Answer: Block it.
Merchant consentThe Verge says DoorDash warned restaurants they may be listed on Bites without consent. Bites says its restaurants opt in through point-of-sale partners, and some listings came from old demos.
From the Drop: Startup Bites takes restaurant orders in ChatGPT, drawing a DoorDash warning
- Card 6 of 6Agents
Your bank's ops team wants AI to classify incoming client emails and route each one to the right operations colleague, who then takes action.
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Answer: Ship it.
Human oversightAnthropic says Barclays uses Claude to classify and route about 120,000 emails a day so operations colleagues can act, with governance and human oversight applied to its use cases.
From the Drop: Barclays expands Claude across the bank, Anthropic says
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