Ex-Amazon Enterprise AI Lead Launches EQUS X Personal Assistant Beta, Warns Agents Learn Your Judgment
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-02
Robert Scoble interviews Sandy Carter, who previously ran enterprise AI at Amazon and Watson at IBM and now CEOs EQUS. The startup just kicked off the first beta of EQUS X, a personal assistant.
Their discussion centers on what most AI pitches skip: these agents aren't just learning your pizza preference, they're learning how you think, negotiate, solve problems, and who you trust in a deal. Carter likens it to teaching her daughters caution about posting on social media — except now the machine learns your judgment, not just your photos.
She cites a friend with cancer who fed a stack of Mayo Clinic reports into an assistant to make them usable — powerful, but raising serious privacy concerns.
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