BI’s Amanda Huber created an AI bot that was trained on her own set of tasks to see if it could do her job.
The experiment was eye-opening, but it didn’t alleviate her fears of losing her job to AI.
To be clear, this is not your 2023 ubiquitous “ChatGPT wrote this story” cliche. When Amanda says she let the AI do her job, she means it. From conducting interviews with voice acting agents to writing stories and communicating with editors, Amanda Bot did it all.
This exercise highlighted the capabilities and limitations of technology that is destined to transform our working lives.
Some people aren’t comfortable using AI agents at work.
Andy Cabasso manages 37 AI agents who do everything from getting analytics to scheduling follow-up meetings. He gave them fictional characters and had the vendor negotiation agents modeled on FBI hostage negotiators.
Cavasso is bringing his dogs to this fight. He manages a growing operation at ClickUp, a productivity platform where AI agents are becoming increasingly important.
Still, that doesn’t negate his experience. More and more people are proudly advertising the tasks they delegate to agents.
This is part of a shift from using AI tools for one-off tasks to empowering engineers to figure things out on their own.
“With AI, you don’t have to tell a computer step-by-step what to do. Instead, you tell the computer what you want, you give it a purpose, a plan, a reason for it, and it executes the plan,” Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, said at a recent event.
How far you can let the AI take the wheel will likely depend on your seniority.
Executives with endless to-do lists are more likely to delegate things to AI than junior employees who are still trying to prove their worth.
The real question: Will executives wait long enough for juniors to figure things out before assigning bots to replace them?