To develop real situational awareness, your agent needs to have access to more in your life than what happens in the chat window. It needs to understand what's happening in your life i.e. contextual information that might be largely trapped in your head, emails, apps, wearables, or even paper(!).

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What does situational awareness actually mean?

Situational awareness means that your agent has as much context as you about any given event or query. To determine if your agent has a high level of situation awareness about a subject, ask them: "Do you have enough information to do this action?"

If not, begin to ask why or how or why not?

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For People Who Have Been Using Agents for a while, ask:

Given your history, can you give me a breakdown of what I use your for the most? I'm specifically interested in categories of requests so that I can best understand where I might look to expose you to more contextual information that can improve your job.

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FAQ

Can an AI agent have situational awareness? Not without having full access to all the relevant context streams.

Why does my agent describe what happened without telling me what it means? Because it has nothing to compare against. One fetch gives it today's value with no distribution behind it, so the fix is history the agent can read rather than a sharper prompt.

What is the fastest way to give several agents a shared picture? Create an account at fulcradynamics.com, connect them to as much context as possible.