Cisco's Jeetu Patel says an AI agent cut his subscriptions, saving $1,000+ a year
Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel told Business Insider he personally uses four or five different AI agents, including Meta's Muse, Instinct and OpenAI's Dots. When he first gave a personal agent access to his inbox, it flagged that his subscriptions cost about $9,000 a year and, at his request, produced a table listing each subscription, its cost and how long he had held it. Patel picked two unneeded subscriptions for the agent to cancel, and it completed the task and sent him cancellation confirmations; he said that alone saves him $1,000 to $1,200 a year against the agent's $20 monthly fee, and it also canceled an extra $11.95-a-month Dropbox plan he had opened by mistake. He stressed that personal agents without corporate review should not be connected to work email, calendars or other internal resources, which he handles with company-specific agents.
Patel's account illustrates both how personal AI agents now take real actions such as canceling subscriptions and his warning against wiring unreviewed personal agents into corporate systems.
IT之家 10 月 20 日消息，如果你总被突如其来、莫名其妙的订阅账单搞得头疼，思科总裁兼产品主管吉图・帕特尔（Jeetu Patel）也深有同感。
帕特尔向《商业内幕》透露，他个人在用四到五款不同的 AI 智能体，包括 Meta 的 Muse、Instinct 以及 OpenAI 的 Dots，用来整合新闻、总结财报电话会议记录，甚至帮女儿订购演唱会门票。而最近，一款智能体帮他大幅削减订阅费用的经历，让他印象深刻。
他说，当他第一次授权个人 AI 智能体访问自己的邮箱时，智能体提示：“你每年的各类订阅总开销高达 9,000 美元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 60,243 元人民币）。你确定全部都需要吗？订阅项目看起来非常多。”