AI agents such as AutoGPT and AgentGPT, working autonomously towards goals you've set have recently gained attention.
Though AI acts autonomously, the key benefit is providing you more autonomy, e.g. say that you are planning a birthday party. You can decide to plan it all by yourself, delegate some tasks or the whole task to your AI birthday planner agent.
🥳 This is great because we (humans) like autonomy.
As a project manger, I often see proof of the power of autonomy. Assigning tasks to team members often yields half-hearted results. However, when the team members come up with the task themselves, they complete them in time with passion.
📚 This is behavior well understood in the literature. Autonomy is a key to human motivation and well-being is described in the Self-Determination Theory. The theory states that we have three psychological needs that drive our motivation and well-being:
📌 Autonomy: The need to feel in control of one's own actions and choices, and to act in harmony with one's values and interests.
📌 Competence: The need to feel effective in one's activities and to experience mastery over challenges.
📌 Relatedness: The need to feel connected and have a sense of belonging with others.
🤖 How can AI boost our motivation?
(1) Autonomy can be improved by AI-agents as described above. AI is also improving our perceived (2) competence - I can now write Python code and make art! (3) The impact on relatedness is less obvious to me and I’ll leave it out for now. But improving 2 out of 3 is amazing.
🌟 Following this lightweight reasoning, AI has the potential to increase our motivation and well-being. I like AI.
❓What do you think? Are AI agents here to stay? Do you think that AI will improve our engagement? What does AI mean for you?
Looking forward to seeing research studies within this field, if you have please ping me 🙂
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