On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. He might ask Gwen, his executive assistant, to schedule a meeting, then troubleshoot(排查故障) a technical problem with Cody, his coding partner. Then he might check in with Betsy for search engine optimization, or Juno for onboarding(客户入驻/入职) customers. If the office runs out of snacks, he sends a Slack message to Justin, the office manager charged with(负责) stocking the kitchen.
在一个普通的工作日，德鲁夫·阿明在AI初创公司Anything与数十位同事聊天来推进工作。他可能会让行政助理格温安排会议，然后与编程搭档科迪一起排查技术问题。接着，他可能会向负责搜索引擎优化的贝齐了解情况，或向负责客户入驻的朱诺询问进展。如果办公室零食吃完了，他会给负责厨房补货的办公室经理贾斯汀发一条Slack消息。
But none of these co-workers are people. They’re artificial intelligence agents, software that handles tasks without human intervention(干预). Anything is one of several startups building them, and betting on(押注于) a future where workplaces will increasingly turn over their sales, marketing, coding and other tasks to semi-autonomous(半自主的) AI. At Anything, there are 15 human employees and roughly 150 agents – a ratio that Amin believes will soon be the norm(常态).
但这些同事都不是人。它们是人工智能智能体，即无需人工干预就能处理任务的软件。Anything是几家开发这类产品的初创公司之一，它们押注未来职场将越来越多地把销售、营销、编程等任务交给半自主的AI。在Anything，有15名人类员工和大约150个智能体——阿明相信这一比例很快就会成为常态。
“I think in a year, every company will have more AI co-workers than human co-workers(我认为一年之内，每家公司拥有的AI同事都会比人类同事多。),” he said.
“我认为一年之内，每家公司拥有的AI同事都会比人类同事多，”他说。
Agents are a ‘status symbol’
智能体是一种“身份象征”
Rising tension
日益加剧的紧张