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AI is moving from “chatbot help” to agents that hold real roles—like an executive assistant that triages your inbox, books meetings, and briefs you daily. Alicia and George unpack what this means for startups, why 2026 feels like a tipping point, and what happens when agents get bodies through humanoid robots.
What We Talk About
- The shift from AI as a tool → AI as an employee (role-based agents)
- Why founders struggle with assistants (human or AI): they can’t define recurring tasks
- The “Claude-bot” moment: an agent figures out a workaround on its own to complete a task
- Costs today (tokens/API calls) vs. where this is heading (cheaper models + open source)
- Robots + agents: intelligence that thinks + bodies that do
- Jobs most exposed first (warehouse, manufacturing, logistics, retail ops)
- Skills that rise in value: leadership, creativity, ethics, emotional intelligence, critical thinking
- A hot take: coding matters less long-term than system design + AI fluency
- The line in the sand: don’t automate hard human conversations
Rapid Fire
- First robot-dominated industry: production lines
- One skill every kid needs: leadership + AI literacy
- One founder mistake: using AI without clear roles + boundaries
- Schools are behind on: banning AI instead of teaching responsible use
Quote-Worthy
“AI won’t just do tasks. It’ll do roles.”
“Just because you can automate something doesn’t mean you should.”
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