About this episode

The episode discusses the silent failures of AI systems and strategies for effective oversight.

Why do AI systems silently fail? How can you set up a system that produces results while also reviewing and validating the work? This week on the show, Calvin Hendryx-Parker returns to discuss his recent talk "Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews."

People in this episode

Guest: Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Topics covered

• AI failures
• oversight strategies
• validation processes
• agentic AI
• checklists
• system design

Keywords

• AI
• silent failures
• oversight
• validation
• Calvin Hendryx-Parker
• checklists
• system design

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Orchestrate Agentic AI: Context, Checklists, and No-Miss Reviews

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