
Automation & Agents
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
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In the coming months, hundreds of thousands of brand-new coworkers will be entering the workforce. Youâll learn their names and recognize their profile pictures. Theyâll get added to your email chains and Slack channels. Theyâll become chiefs of staff, engineers, and marketing gurus. But these coworkers arenât human: They are all artificial intelligence agents. The rise of AI agentsâsystems, based on large language models, designed to complete tasks autonomouslyâhas launched a tsunami of companies selling the services of digital employees. These agents are supposed to be the perfect worker bees:…








