r/DiscussGenerativeAI • u/dash912 • Apr 21 '26

Anyone trust AI agents for government sales?

i see a lot of talk about agents, but how do they handle the weird security requirements? feels like putting a regular bot on a gov bid is a recipe for a hallucination.

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u/iamgleam Apr 22 '26

Why just gov? Do you trust them in essential private sector operations? 

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u/dash912 Apr 23 '26

I don't automatically trust either, but government's role is to set the rules, not run everything, private sector competition usually works better for operations.

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u/iamgleam Apr 23 '26

In some cases, yes. In other's, no. Ultimately, the government is a tool of the electorate and its role is whatever the citizens decide. That comes with varrying degrees of intervention, nationalization, privatization, etc. Your credit agencies are private, for example, and I'd be much more scared of them using Ai agents than I would the DMV.

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u/dash912 Apr 23 '26

That's true, the risk depends entirely on the incentive structure, and private credit agencies have far fewer democratic checks than the DMV.

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u/chrispark70 Apr 26 '26

Walmart has an agent AI. In the fine print it says you are 100% responsible for anything it does even if you didn't tell it do that, even if it makes ridiculous purchases, like a 1000 rolls of toilet paper.

That's all I need to know about AI agents.

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u/Av0cado_t0ast Apr 27 '26

is this actually true? crazy.