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On our mission to educate as many people in AI, this week's newsletter delves a little deeper into our series on AI Agents. This week we focus on autonomy and how to use it to get the best out of your agent.

Plus this is a very busy month for Create With AI Meetups happening all around the world! Full list below.

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🤔 Episode 3 of AI Agents - the power of autonomy
📆 A busy month of real-life events
👀 Video uploads in ChatGPT

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Explain Like I'm 5

🧭 Autonomy (for your AI Agent)

If your agent is an intern, autonomy is how much freedom you give them to figure things out.

👶 Low autonomy → They just follow your steps exactly.

🧑 Medium autonomy → They can make small decisions.

🧙‍♀️ High autonomy → They plan the whole route to the goal — even if things change along the way.

Think of it like driving:

You can hand your agent the steering wheel, or keep them in the passenger seat giving directions. You decide how much trust to give.

In tools like Make, Zapier, n8n, or anything powered by an LLM, that trust comes down to how much you let the AI think and act on its own.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:

A simple automation: “When a form is submitted, send a welcome email.”
A more autonomous agent: “When a form is submitted, check if this person is new, find their company info, write a tailored welcome message, and follow up in two days if they haven’t replied.”
A truly free agent: "When a form is submitted, take whatever actions you think are necessary to close the deal."

Same starting point — very different level of initiative.

⚙️ How you can shape autonomy

Most tools now let you control this. A few ways:

Limit which apps or actions your agent can use.

For example an AI Agent can draft an email rather than sending the email

Add a "Human in the loop" for approval before it takes the next step.
Make your instructions highly prescriptive and forbid the agent from straying.

And if you’re using GPT-5, there are new API settings that nudge autonomy behind the scenes:

Reasoning effort: how deeply the model thinks before acting.
Setting these lower keeps things snappy and controlled; higher lets the model explore and take more initiative.

💡 Why this matters:

Autonomy is the line between a helper and a collaborator. Give too little, and your agent’s just an automation. Give too much, and it might start improvising in ways you didn’t expect.

Find opportunities where the risk to reward is the right mix so you can push the limits without more issues for yourself.

_** view on agent autonomy**_ as of October 2025: For internal non-critical tools, give the agent as much autonomy as it needs and sometimes you'll be delighted. For external-facing agents, be much more wary. Always including a human-in-the-loop.

Finding that middle ground is where the real magic happens.

📆 Next week, we’ll explore Context - the background your agent needs to make smart choices.

Recap

We're in the midst of 2 events this week + 1 last week but here's a quick shout to out Sonia and the Madrid members who met and talked AI.

Matt hosted our Barcelona meetup Monday... All powered by Make.com and their #MakeAIWorldTour

And tonight James and Kieran are in London for the Create With Bubble Meetup 😅.

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🔊 On your radar

Keep your finger on the pulse of what we think is hot in the space right now 🔥

⭐ Google’s Speech‑to‑Retrieval makes voice search skip transcription

👉 Why it matters: Old voice search turned speech into text, then searched. Google’s new approach maps your audio directly to meaning, across 17 languages, and is now live in Voice Search. In practice: fewer “did you mean…”, better intent hits, and less fiddling with exact phrasing. We're not quite sure if you will actually feel a difference

⭐ ChatGPT adds video uploads in iOS: summarise, transcribe, analyse

👉 Why it matters: You can now drop a video into the ChatGPT iPhone app and get a quick summary, a simple transcript, or ideas without exporting to another tool. This cuts a step in your workflow. Try short clips first, then longer meetings or tutorials to see where it saves you time.

⭐ Slack turns Slackbot into an AI assistant

👉 Why it matters: Slackbot is moving beyond reminders. It can search your workspace in plain English, pull documents and updates across channels, outline project plans in Canvas, and even help schedule meetings via Outlook or Google Calendar. We're big slack users and build little bots so keen to follow how this develops

💭 Final Thoughts

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