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30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build
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30 Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build

by Imran Ahmad
March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
17h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Ethical and Explainable Agents

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

— Melvin Kranzberg, historian of technology and founder of the Society for the History of Technology.

Autonomous agents are no longer research curiosities. They screen resumes, recommend treatments, and allocate scarce resources. This shift raises a question every engineering team must answer before shipping: how do we make sure these systems act in accordance with human values, and how do we make their reasoning visible to the people they affect?

This chapter answers that question through two complementary architectures: Ethical Reasoning agent and Explainable agent. The Ethical Reasoning agent integrates value alignment, ethical decision-making, and bias ...

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ISBN: 9781806109012