AI-Powered Synthetic Employees Could Lead to 3-Day Workweek and Take Over Admin Duties, AI Expert Says

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a growing number of applications. Many are already working with AI agents or synthetic employees to make jobs faster and this trend could likely change the operating days of businesses in the future.

Future of Synthetic Employees or AI Agents

In recent months several companies have announced they are building AI agents, or "synthetic employees." Synthetic workforce refers to computer equipment and programs, including programmable robots.

These digital workers could upend the workplace as we know it - answering emails, organizing invoices, responding to customer service inquiries and managing a calendar - possibly doing away with admin employees or pricey third-party technology.

Ed Broussard, CEO of the artificial intelligence company Tomoro.AI, said the productivity boost offered by these synthetic employees would be great and would lead to a three-day workweek. He added that in the near future, technology will take over administrative and research duties in several industries, including law, investment, and marketing.

To make his point clear, he shared that Fact Extraction agent is among their most often used agents. According to him, its specialty lies in analyzing copious amounts of documents and distilling all relevant details and facts into a format easily comprehensible for other AI agents.

This can subsequently be applied to a wide range of corporate applications, such as reviewing legal documents, analyzing investments, researching customers, and even giving call center employees the correct information or negotiating prices for big contracts.

He predicts that within the next two years, the industry will have achieved more development than in the preceding 75 and that by the end of the decade, artificial intelligence will have "transformed" every office job.

Furthermore, he was sure that big businesses would vanish within the next ten years if they did not begin using "synthetic employees."

Broussard wasn't the only one who expressed his concerns about the significant shifts artificial intelligence (AI) may bring. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, also saw this trend decades ago. He predicted the use of AI in his 1995 book, "The Road Ahead." The genius billionaire believes that introducing synthetic workers would significantly impact healthcare and education, calling them "the biggest revolution in computing since we went from typing commands to tapping on icons."

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Jobs AI Could Take Over by 2116

A global team of scientists polled 2,778 AI professionals about the future of the systems, and 25% of them said that technology would wipe out humanity. But an even more concerning prediction was made by one in 10 researchers, who estimated that there is a terrifying 25% chance that AI will wipe out the human species.

The experts listed three possible explanations for why AI might take over: (1) AI being used by authoritarian rulers to manipulate their populace; (2) AI systems exacerbating economic inequality by favoring some individuals disproportionately; and (3) AI enabling threatening groups to develop potent weapons, such as genetically modified viruses.

For the poll, experts were asked about four specific professions that they thought would become automatable -- truck drivers, surgeons, retail salespeople, and AI researchers. By 2116, the experts predicted a 50% chance AI would completely replace such positions.

On the other hand, about 58% of researchers expressed greater optimism regarding AI's eventual conquest, stating that there is only a 5% possibility that it could lead to the extinction of humans.

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