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A Daily Excelsior guide to workplace AI agents offers a useful test beyond the word “secure”: what can each agent access, and who can stop it acting?

Its checklist covers limiting access to the tools and chats an agent needs, keeping app credentials out of the agent’s reach, requiring approval for consequential actions, and separating conversation memory. It also recommends audit logs and admin controls across a team. Those are concrete checks for buyers comparing workplace agents, though the guide’s assessments of individual products remain the publication’s own. Which safeguard should be non-negotiable: restricted access, human approval, or an audit trail?

Discuss: Which safeguard should be non-negotiable for workplace AI agents: restricted access, human approval, or an audit trail?

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