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References: AI Agents for Registration, Scheduling, and Communication

  1. Intelligent agent - Wikipedia - Defines a system that perceives its environment and acts to achieve goals, the foundational concept behind this chapter's AI-agent-basics section.

  2. Chatbot - Wikipedia - History and design of conversational software, the technology behind this chapter's AI-chatbot-for-parents and AI-chatbot-for-students sections.

  3. Sentiment analysis - Wikipedia - Explains how software classifies the emotional tone of text, the technique behind this chapter's AI-sentiment-analysis section for reading survey and message feedback.

  4. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th Edition) - Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig - Pearson - Russell and Norvig wrote the field's standard textbook, credited with the canonical definition of an intelligent agent perceiving and acting on its environment, the concept behind this chapter's AI-agent-basics section.

  5. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - Cathy O'Neil - Crown - O'Neil is widely credited with popularizing the case for human oversight of automated decision systems, the reasoning behind this chapter's emphasis on guardrails and keeping a mentor in the loop.

  6. Getting Started on a Responsible AI Use Policy for Nonprofits - Candid - Practical guidance on scope, data handling, and prohibited uses for a small organization's AI policy, directly supporting this chapter's human-in-the-loop and oversight guidance.

  7. What Are AI Agents? - IBM - Explains the plan-act-review loop that distinguishes an autonomous AI agent from a simple chatbot, directly supporting this chapter's AI-agent-basics section.

  8. How to Segment Your Email List - Mailchimp - The targeting logic behind this chapter's influence-graph concept for reaching specific mentor populations with the right message.

  9. How to Write Survey Questions That Get Better Responses - SurveyMonkey - Groundwork for the AI-survey-analysis section, since a well-designed survey produces the clean data an AI agent needs to summarize accurately.

  10. Khanmigo - Khan Academy - A widely used education AI assistant built around Socratic guidance rather than direct answers, a real-world model for this chapter's mentor-coaching-AI-agent section.