From the course: Agentic AI Human-Agent Collaboration Design Patterns

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Parallel explainer agent

Parallel explainer agent

In the previous video, we covered the interactive probing design pattern, but our emphasis in that video was on post-action investigation. But what if an agent carried out a critical task incorrectly, resulting in real damage or loss? A post-task investigation would help us understand what went wrong, but it wouldn't help us prevent the damage from occurring. Let's say we have a customer service refund agent that handles incoming requests to speed up support. It basically automates the approval or denial of refunds based on a set of internal policies. We have our trace execution log that's recording all of the activity. And then the agent proceeds to carry out its actions, essentially approving a series of refunds that do comply with the policies. While the agent is working, it sends out a stream of approved notifications to the human which makes it look like everything is happening as normal. But the human supervisor later uses the XAI tool to read over a report of the activity…

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