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Real AI Agents and Real Work

Everyone is building AI agents. Nobody is talking about the real work they need to do.

Reporting by One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick) 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As AI agents proliferate, organizations must distinguish between automating meaningful work versus creating elaborate presentations, with the future favoring companies that deploy agents for actual productive tasks rather than administrative theater.

The key facts

2 to know

  1. Race between human-centered work and infinite PowerPoints

  2. Focus on real AI agent deployment versus presentation-focused implementations

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