If AI agents can do your job better and faster, what's left for you to do?

AI agents are already taking over a range of human tasks. Specialized AI agents are at work right now in customer service, drug discovery, and software development, increasing productivity and speed-to-market by 50% or more, according to one study.

This may be just the beginning of a drastic overhaul of the nature of work itself. In a not-too-distant future, we may not be doing work at all— at least not the work we’re used to. Instead, we’ll be overseeing AI agents performing familiar tasks for us.

In a recent interview with podcast host Dwarkesh Patel, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out such a future — one in which each person effectively manages millions of AI agents.

“I feel there's a new inbox that's going to get created, which is my millions of agents [...]

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(02:09) Doing 100 Jobs

(03:51) Is More Work Good Work?

(06:20) How Soon?

(08:06) The Agent Boss

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