Jun 15, 2026 · 26 min · 10 segments
Capabilities get all the attention when it comes to AI agents — but what happens when a highly capable agent makes a bad decision in the real world? Trust, oversight, and control are the unglamorous…
What can the models do? What can they not do yet? What's the LLM? What's the tools? What's the skills? But there's a big piece of agents that we haven't even touched at all, which is that there's a whole world out there that they're interacting with.
And there's some real-deal security concerns around the combination of capabilities and judgment, or maybe in some cases lack thereof, that you might have in an agent.
And so the whole concept of trust and oversight and control is a really important one.
And in the context of AI agents, as much as they are extremely capable and they feel almost like magic sometimes in what they're able to do, there's a security story that is maybe just as important and just as big on the other side.
And we're going to spend some time talking about it today.
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What can the models do? What can they not do yet? What's the LLM? What's the tools? What's the skills? But there's a big piece of agents that we haven't even touched at all, which is that there's a whole world out there that they're interacting with.
And there's some real-deal security concerns around the combination of capabilities and judgment, or maybe in some cases lack thereof, that you might have in an agent.
And so the whole concept of trust and oversight and control is a really important one.
And in the context of AI agents, as much as they are extremely capable and they feel almost like magic sometimes in what they're able to do, there's a security story that is maybe just as important and just as big on the other side.
And we're going to spend some time talking about it today.
You are listening to Linear Digressions.