Our Perspective on AI in Directus

Speaker 0: Hello. It's Reik van Zonthe, cofounder and CTO here at Directus. Very excited with this MCP launch. Very excited to see what you're gonna integrate it with and what new use cases you might find. For this segment, I was asked to go in a little bit deeper on the philosophy of artificial intelligence here at Directus, how we treat it right now, how we're planning on using it now and in the future, and what it means for our end users.

So over time, over the last months and years, we've seen a lot of different directions that AI can take, a lot of possibilities that were unlocked. Some of them very exciting and real. Some of them a little bit silver bullet magic. At the end of the day, for us, it's all about helping our users achieve their goals in the most efficient and easy to use way as possible. We're not here to just replace a bunch of tasks that a person might have to do.

We're here to help you out get to your results faster. With that in mind, we're really treating this more as a collaboration tool rather than an automation tool. Christina will do a little segment on that later, so keep watching. We found that LLMs are pretty great at helping unblock users in tasks they're taking, but do wanna make sure that we offer those LLM tools when and where they make sense. So for our very first deep dive here into AI, we started with MCP as the focus area.

That allows our users to be unblocked when using third party tools like Claw, JetGPT, Recursor, or any other tool that supports MCP, and allow them to use their content, their data within Directus from those tools directly. When it comes to AI use, we obviously have to make sure that we have some very strict control about what an LM is allowed to read, what it is allowed to do with your data. And in general, this this fits in neatly with DirectUs' permission system because we, of course, through policies in our RBAC system, we have some very strict access control in place. The same applies for your MCP, usage. In general, we're implementing AI here as a carefully considered approach with that real user value rather than gimmicky for the sake of it.

I'm incredibly excited to see what you will integrate our MCP endpoint with. Please do let me know as well. As this technology progresses, we're seeing a lot more interesting use cases, things we might have never even thought of on how to use it. So please let us know all of your thoughts, feelings, concerns, cool experiments, and everything else on community.directus.ao. And keep your eyes peeled because we have a lot more cool AI stuff coming in the near future.

Thank you.