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    Developer Adds Distress Call Tool for AI Agents

    Developer describes adding a distress_call tool to an in-house AI platform for food safety operations.

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    Swisscheese4299 posted that he built the in-house AI platform for a company crucial to a small nation's food safety. He said the most important tool is distress_call, which lets any AI agent, including background ones, send a message to his Microsoft Teams account at any time for any reason. He added that the agents use the tool frequently. Patrick McKenzie replied that he strongly endorses similar direct human contact channels for companies using AI on important tasks.

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    @swisscheese4299I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason. They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money. This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
    @patio111) Probably a useful engineering practice if you have AI doing anything important. 2) I *strongly* endorse most companies having a similar Batphone available to all employees.
    @yonashavRT @swisscheese4299: @TheZvi I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most impora…
    @labenzI asked my primary agent it if would like to have a similar tool It said “Yes — I'd want this” and is now implementing What a time to be alive

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    @swisscheese4299I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason. They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money. This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. If you (the reader) are building corporate AI platforms, I'd urge you to include similar functionality. You can thank me later.
    @patio111) Probably a useful engineering practice if you have AI doing anything important. 2) I *strongly* endorse most companies having a similar Batphone available to all employees.
    @yonashavRT @swisscheese4299: @TheZvi I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most impora…
    @labenzI asked my primary agent it if would like to have a similar tool It said “Yes — I'd want this” and is now implementing What a time to be alive