Mark Cuban said the AI agent’s work time will be reduced by one hour from a normal workday.
The billionaire investor wrote in a post on Sunday’s X that “smart big companies” will let their employees create and use AI agents to improve productivity.
But more importantly, “they start their work day one hour shorter,” he said.
He said employees could work one hour less per day while earning the same pay, adding that companies should “compensate the people who do their daily jobs by giving them more hours.”
AI agents act as virtual assistants that can autonomously complete tasks from start to finish without requiring user prompting.
Cuban’s comments came from one of several posts he made about AI on Sunday. In a previous post, he said he was not an AI “ruiner” and did not believe the rise of AI would lead to mass unemployment.
“Over time, the same thing became available to everyone. The early adopters who iterated and did what was best were the winners,” he wrote.
Mr. Cuban’s comments about the shorter workday echo those of other technology executives.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said that by 2024, AI avatars will be able to handle daily tasks such as attending meetings, reducing the work week to three to four days. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon have both said that by 2023, AI will lead to a three- to 3.5-day work week.
Cuban, a former “Shark Tank” investor, has promoted AI in recent posts on X. In an interview aired in February, he said AI is the beginning of an era where “someone’s kid in the basement” with a great idea can change an industry.
Cuban also talked about AI agents, saying in December that new graduates should go to work for small and medium-sized companies to help deploy AI agents, a job that large companies don’t need to do for them.
AI agents have become the latest buzzword in productivity, but research shows they still require a lot of human intervention. A study by Workday in January showed that nearly 40% of the value of AI is lost through rework and misalignment as employees have to check for errors and illusions.
Another study published in the Harvard Business Review earlier this month found that some employees are experiencing “AI brain fly,” or mental fog from using too many AI tools at once.