Cisco's president said he used personal AI agents to screen $9,000 worth of his yearly subscriptions
Cisco's president and product chief, Jeetu Patel, shared how he's used personal AI agents.
Bloomberg/Getty Images Cisco's president, Jeetu Patel, said he uses four or five of the most popular personal AI agents.
One of them, which costs him $20 a month, recently saved him more than $1,000 in subscription bills.
But he said it's important not to give personal AI agents access to work tools or resources.
If getting mysterious and surprising subscription bills are the bane of your existence, Cisco's president and product chief, Jeetu Patel , is in the same boat.
Patel told Business Insider that said he's been using four to five different personal AI agents , like Meta's Muse, Instinct, and OpenAI's Dots, for things like consolidating news, summarizing earnings calls, and even booking his daughter's concert tickets.
But recently, he was impressed by how one agent could slash his subscription bills.
He said that the first time he gave a personal AI agent access to his email, the agent told him, "Hey, you've got $9,000 worth of subscriptions that you subscribe to per year.
Are you sure you want all of these? It seems like a lot of subscriptions." He told the agent to make him a table of all his subscriptions, how much he spends on each, and how long he's had each.
After the agent presented him with the table, he picked out two subscriptions that he didn't need and made the agent cancel them, which it did without difficulty, and sent him cancellation emails.
"I'm like, OK, that was kind of creepy how easy it was to do that," Patel said.
"And then it saved me 1,000, 1,200 bucks a year just over there.
So basically, for the most part, I paid for that agent, at a $20-a-month plan, several times over." The agent also managed to cancel part of his Dropbox subscription — an $11.95 plan he had accidentally subscribed to, even though he had already purchased a 2-terabyte plan.
Patel is a big fan of AI agents, both at work and outside it.
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