The agentic age: a new frontier for AI and humans

FOR THE PAST YEAR, I'VE BEEN RUNNING SALES- force with a colleague who never sleeps, never takes vacations, and has read more than I could in 100 lifetimes. On a typical day, sitting with a few executives around the table, I'll ask it to evaluate a competitor's moves, refine a keynote draft, or sur- face strategic blind spots we might have missed.

This colleague is my AI agent, and we work together constantly. Sometimes it surprises me. Sometimes it challenges me. Sometimes, like all of us, it makes a mistake. But always, it expands what I can see and do.

We are at the beginning of the agentic era, the most significant transformation of work in history. For the first time, machines can perform not only repetitive tasks, but also cognitive work once re- served for humans. These AI agents-which can reason, adapt, and act on their own-are already reshaping thousands of companies and will ulti- mately touch every job and every person.

As the CEO of a technology company that helps customers deploy AI to unlock new levels of performance and decision making, I believe this revolutionary technology can usher in extraordinary economic growth and entrepreneurship, while also creating significant new opportunities to improve health care, education, and quality of life.