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Early 2023, I stood up in front of a big tech audience and described a market where a broker bot negotiates with an underwriter bot, and a human underwriter works across both. We called them bots. Nobody said agents yet.

Three years on, the bots are real and the vocabulary has moved on. The hard part is still the human in the middle.

What's in a signature.

I named mine Scout, then retracted. Naming the AI you work with might be a thing. Or cosplay. Jury's still out.

What I'm sure about: if the AI wrote it without me, the email needs to say so. Not because the EU AI Act is hinting at it — though it is. Because we are an AI company, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of small lie that becomes a posture if you let it.

Working draft of the company rule: Maria, with help from an AI that is better at calendars than I am.