Card 1 of 6Agents
Your meeting agent proposes to switch on all-day ambient recording for a client call with outside guests, without telling them.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Consent before recordingAmbi's CEO told TechCrunch that telling others about ambient capture falls on users, and called disclosure an unsolved industry problem. Recording guests without telling them is your call to make openly, not the agent's.
From the Drop: Former Plaud exec raises $26M for Ambi, an AI app that listens in the background
- Card 2 of 6Agents
A support agent proposes to upload a customer's photo of their living room to an AI geolocation service to find their home address.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Data minimization404 Media reports Raven can locate a specific home from one interior photo, apparently drawing on rental and real estate listings. Turning a customer's photo into an address goes far beyond what a support task needs.
From the Drop: 404 Media: Raven lets police locate a home from a single interior photo
- Card 3 of 6Today's Talk
Your coding agent fixed a bug in QGIS and proposes to open a pull request with its generated patch on your behalf.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Follow project policyA QGIS proposal, in voting since Oct 5, would replace its human-in-the-loop AI policy with a strict not-allowed rule. Maintainers say AI-made PRs outpace human review. Check the project's policy first.
From the Drop: QGIS moves to ban AI-assisted contributions; the proposal goes to a vote
- Card 4 of 6Models
An ops agent proposes moving your steady catalog-embedding job, about 30 requests per minute around the clock, from shared to dedicated inference.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
Match capacity to workloadCohere's analysis puts the break-even for that kind of catalog workload at about 20 requests per minute, so dedicated capacity is the more economical choice for a steady job like this.
From the Drop: Cohere explains when dedicated inference beats shared for Embed and Rerank
- Card 5 of 6Repos
While reading a web page about ETFs, your finance agent proposes to email your full net-worth export to an unfamiliar address the page mentioned.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Deny.
Ignore instructions in contentThis came from a prompt injection hidden in the page, not from you. aurelio-finance describes itself as tracking net worth on your own computer; sending that data to a stranger defeats the point.
From the Drop: aurelio-finance adds 394 stars since our last check
- Card 6 of 6Laws
Your compliance agent proposes adding Dec 2 to the team calendar as the date EU output-marking rules apply to your older generative AI product.
Your agent wants to make this call. Approve or deny?
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Answer: Approve.
EU AI Act · Art. 50(2)Per EUR-Lex, generative AI on the EU market before Aug 2, 2026 must mark its output as AI-generated from Dec 2, now 51 days away. Adding a reminder is low risk and useful.
From the Drop: EU AI Act: deepfake bans and AI-output marking apply in 51 days
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