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Who is accountable when an AI agent is allowed to act?

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The question is not whether an AI agent will make a mistake. It will. The more useful question is what happens when it does. Can we identify who gave the agent authority, what that authority covered, and which person or organization must answer for the consequences? We often talk about an agent as if it were an employee. The comparison is useful up to a point. An employee has a role, a manager, and a place in an organization’s accountability structure. An agent may have access to systems without anyone having clearly defined the boundaries of its authority. That gap is where responsibility becomes difficult to locate. The experts in the supplied AI podcast transcripts make a practical point: AI capability is jagged. A system can perform impressively on one task and fail at another that appears similar. People also have to specify what they want. When an agent fails, the instruction may have been unclear. The environment may also have allowed it to reach data or take actions it sho...
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Can AI make work larger, or will it only raise the output quota?

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The most important question about AI at work may not be how much faster it helps us complete today’s tasks. It may be whether it allows us to attempt work that was previously too difficult, too expensive, or simply beyond our capacity. There is a difference between doing the same work faster and making more ambitious work possible. A faster report is useful. A service that reaches people who were never served before could change the size of the opportunity. But those outcomes are not automatic consequences of installing a model. The technology itself is uneven. In a podcast discussion, experts described AI’s capabilities as “jagged”: strong at some tasks, surprisingly weak at others. That makes the human role more consequential, not less. People still need to specify the goal, recognize where a model is useful, and help it work around what it cannot do. This is easy to overlook when a tool produces a polished answer. Fluency can look like competence across the whole task. It is not. Th...
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Does God Exist?

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  Does God exist? I don’t know but Divine does live among us. Not sure who finds who and why? Everyone has a view on how the universe operates and I have mine. We are all correct. As Sri Ramakrishna Paramanhsa said “ as many faiths, so many paths” ( যত মত তত পথ ). My encounter with the Divine happened in 2001. In 1999 a team of doctor’s at AMRI Dhakuria Kolkata (now Manipal Hospital) gave my mother 7 days to live. She had one of the rarest diseases in the world – Good Pastures Syndrome. An auto immune disease with 4 cases in the world that, pretty much like cancer, manifests when key organs in the body are already compromised. For my mother, it was her kidneys and partially her heart and resiratory system. She lived for another 12 years to see me get married and spend a last few months with her grandchildren. From a probablility score of near 0 in surviving to 12 years of half life with joy and contentment was nothing short of a miracle that I can only arrtibute to my "Kutti Ba...
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The Great Escape

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 My wife's and my Great Escape on January 17th, 2026 was nothing short of Netaji's great escape from Calcutta to Berlin through #Uttarpara.  Image Courtesy: Sandipan Chatterjee Let me start with a famous picture of Dr. Bidhan Roy in our family. Not sure about the exact date but the year was 1952. The government passed as act on land ceiling and like many other royal/zamindar families were asked to either buy back all the real estate from the government or hand it back at an agreed price. On this day a certain terms and conditions were agreed upon with Dr. Roy. The amount agreed upon for ~50 lakh acre across Bengal (including the Sunderbans) was ~Rs. 10 lakhs. I could be wrong.  If you read my blog https://kpax72.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-untold-truth-what-liberals-dont.html , the gory details are provided how Roy cheated my grandfather. L-R - Raja Bhupendranath Mukherjee, BC Roy, Governer Harendra Coomar Mukherjee My father bought the house on Gariahat Road, one of the pri...
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Indian Famine Paradox

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 While reviewing e xcerpt from the History of British India vol.2 at the British Library, some important revelations emerge. We were taught that the British built the Indian railway system to develop trade. True but what is also true is they accelerated the work because they were shocked to witness the unimaginable death across the country from famines and natural disasters. They had not witnessed anything like this before. Collectively, the British and the intellectual natives, realized for the first time that the Mughals had simply looted the country and never invested in any developmental activities like building new methods of travel and transport. Did you know that in 1899, 475,000 sq miles of India was prone to drought and 69,500,00 human lives were affected by it while only 6,500,000 could be provided relief? Imagine the colossal loss of life.    Despite coming from the land of Aryabhatta, Patanjali, Brahmagupta, Charaka, Bhaskara, Kanada & Varahamihira we In...
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Metaverse - Untangling The Confusion

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While at the onset of Covid 19 with the lockdown dropped on us like a bomb, many retailers scrambled to keep the lights on. Several organizations globally went belly up while others showed renewed vigor. According to McKinsey Global Fashion Index (MGFI), in the retail sector itself, a record 69% of companies were value destroyers in 2020 compared with 61%in 2019. About 7% of companies left the market entirely, either due to financial distress or because they were acquired by rivals. Organizations that had consistently invested in innovative ways to keep the channels of interaction open with their customers, are now reaping the benefits as the markets ease out. As Covid restrictions were easing out most unvaccinated people were still not comfortable physically shopping. Brands that invested in Live Commerce technologies started emerging out the dark much faster. Live steaming of events, ability to speak with a preferred store associate who helped in guided selling & social shopp...
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