Ebook: Designing agentive technology: AI that works for people

PART I: SEEING 1: The Thermostat That Evolved -- 2: Fait Accompli: Agentive Tech Is Here -- 3: Agentive Tech Can Change the World -- 4: Six Takeaways from the History of Agentive thinking PART II: DOING 5: A Modifed Frame for Interaction -- 6: Ramping Up with an Agent -- 7: Everything Running Smoothly -- 8: Handling Exceptions -- 9: Handoff and Takeback -- 10: Evaluating Agents PART III: THINKING 11: How Will Our Practice Evolve? -- 12: Utopia, Dystopia, and Cat Videos -- 13: Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It;Advances in narrow artificial intelligence make possible agentive systems that do things directly for their users (like, say, an automatic pet feeder). They deliver on the promise of user-centered design, but present fresh challenges in understanding their unique promises and pitfalls. Designing Agentive Technology provides both a conceptual grounding and practical advice to unlock agentive technologys massive potential.