BI’s Amanda Hoover created an AI bot trained on her body of work to see if it could do her job.
The experiment was an eye-opener, but it didn’t leave her worried about losing her job to AI.
To be clear, this isn’t one of those run-of-the-mill “ChatGPT wrote this story” bits that were everywhere in 2023. When Amanda says she had AI do her job, she means it. From conducting interviews with a voice agent to trying to write the story to dealing with an editor, “Amanda Bot” did it all.
The exercise highlighted the abilities and limitations of tech destined to upend our work lives.
Others can’t get enough of using AI agents on the job.
Andy Cabasso manages 37 AI agents that handle everything from pulling analytics to scheduling follow-up meetings. He’s even given them fictional personalities, modeling his vendor-negotiations agent after an FBI hostage negotiator.
Cabasso has a dog in this fight. He manages growth operations at ClickUp, a productivity platform where AI agents are becoming increasingly important.
Still, that doesn’t discredit his experience. More people are proudly touting the tasks they’ve outsourced to agents.
It’s part of a shift from using AI tools for one-off tasks to giving the tech the freedom to figure things out on its own.
“With AI, you don’t tell the computer what to do step-by-step anymore. Instead, you tell it what you want, you lay out your objective, your plan, and the computer reasons and executes your plan,” Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of Perplexity AI, said at a recent event.
How far you’re willing to let AI take the wheel likely depends on your seniority.
An executive with an endless to-do list is more likely to hand things off to AI than a junior employee who’s still trying to prove their worth.
The real question: Will the executive wait long enough for the junior to figure things out before assigning a bot to do it instead?
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