My coworker let an AI agent handle Slack replies while he was "unavailable." It did not go well.
Summary
An employee used an AI agent to auto-respond to Slack messages, and it gave a confidently wrong answer about a client deadline, highlighting the risk of trusting tone and fluency over accuracy.
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