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AI Agents Won’t Transform Work Until Humans Trust the Work

AI Agents Won’t Transform Work Until Humans Trust the Work

I’m honored to be included in The Wharton Blueprint for AI Agent Adoption, a new report from Wharton Human-AI Research and Science Says that explores one of the most important questions facing every leader right now: if AI agents are becoming so capable, why aren’t more people ready to trust them with meaningful work? The answer isn’t just technical. It’s human. The report makes clear that agent adoption is moving from a technology challenge to a psychological one. People may…

Weaving a Web of Agents: ChatGPT Atlas Turns Search into Action and Discovery into Outcomes

Weaving a Web of Agents: ChatGPT Atlas Turns Search into Action and Discovery into Outcomes

I haven’t written about a browser since the early 2000s. We are about to change how we discover, decide, and do things on the web again. And the very purpose of the web is shifting. For decades, the web was built for humans clicking links. The next era is being built for agents completing tasks. I’ll unpack that bigger shift in a follow-up, but first, let’s look at what’s here now and why it matters. Two AI-Native Browsers Draw a…

AInsights: Press Zero for the Future, This AI Operator Takes the ‘Work’ Out of Work

AInsights: Press Zero for the Future, This AI Operator Takes the ‘Work’ Out of Work

AInsights: Your executive-level insights making sense of the latest in generative AI… 2025 was said to be the year of AI agents and the dawn of agentic AI. I’m just returning from the ServiceNow Sales Kickoff in Las Vegas and from employees to consumers to enterprise, it’s on. Introduction to OpenAI’s “Operator” OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to the launch post….

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