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The Future of Work: AI Agents

How autonomous AI agents are transforming business operations and what it means for your organization.

73 minutes
Recorded February 2025

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Key Takeaways

What Are AI Agents

Understanding autonomous AI systems that can plan, act, and adapt without constant human guidance.

Business Applications

Real-world use cases across operations, customer service, sales, and internal workflows.

Implementation Challenges

Common pitfalls and how to avoid them when deploying agentic AI systems.

Getting Started

Practical steps to begin experimenting with AI agents in your organization.

Webinar Chapters

00:00

Introduction to AI Agents

5 min
05:30

How Agents Differ from Traditional AI

12 min
17:45

Real-World Use Cases

18 min
36:00

Architecture & Components

15 min
51:15

Security Considerations

10 min
61:30

Q&A Session

12 min

Webinar Summary

What Are AI Agents?

AI agents are autonomous systems that can perceive their environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific goals. Unlike traditional AI that responds to individual prompts, agents can:

  • • Plan multi-step tasks and execute them independently
  • • Use tools and APIs to interact with external systems
  • • Learn from feedback and adapt their behavior
  • • Maintain context and memory across interactions

How Agents Differ from Traditional AI

AspectTraditional AIAI Agents
InteractionSingle-turn responsesMulti-turn, stateful
PlanningNone - responds to inputDecomposes goals into steps
ToolsCannot use external toolsCan call APIs, query databases
MemoryLimited context windowPersistent memory & learning

Real-World Use Cases

Customer Service Agent

An AI agent that can handle complex customer inquiries by checking order status, processing returns, updating account information, and escalating to humans when needed—all in a single conversation without pre-defined scripts.

Research Analyst

An agent that continuously monitors industry news, analyzes competitor movements, summarizes relevant information, and generates weekly reports for the strategy team.

DevOps Assistant

An agent that monitors system metrics, identifies anomalies, creates tickets, suggests fixes, and can even implement approved changes through your deployment pipeline.

Implementation Considerations

When to Use Agents

  • • Tasks requiring multiple steps and decisions
  • • Processes that benefit from autonomy
  • • Situations where context needs to be maintained
  • • Workflows involving multiple tools or systems

When NOT to Use Agents

  • • Simple, single-step tasks (overkill)
  • • High-stakes decisions requiring human judgment
  • • Processes with strict regulatory requirements
  • • When you need predictable, deterministic outputs

Getting Started

If you are interested in experimenting with AI agents:

  1. 1. Start small: Pick a contained task with clear success criteria
  2. 2. Define guardrails: Set clear boundaries on what the agent can and cannot do
  3. 3. Plan for supervision: Build in human oversight and approval checkpoints
  4. 4. Measure everything: Track performance, errors, and business impact
  5. 5. Iterate: Use feedback to improve the agent over time

The Future

AI agents represent a fundamental shift in how we think about automation. Instead of programming specific behaviors, we are defining goals and letting AI figure out how to achieve them. This opens up possibilities for automation that were previously impractical, but it also requires new approaches to security, governance, and human-AI collaboration.

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