What Would You Do With a Thousand More Employees?

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Every organisation is asking what it should do with AI. This talk argues that this is the wrong question. A better one is: what would you do with a thousand more employees? Using that provocation, Advait Sarkar explores how increasingly cheap, powerful, and agentic AI systems are changing knowledge work, and why the real bottlenecks are no longer just cost or capability, but attention, autonomy, intention, and culture. Drawing on recent research into AI, teamwork, and critical thinking, he argues that the organisations that thrive will not be the ones that simply produce more, but the ones that get clearer about what is worth doing.

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Speakers

Advait Sarkar

Senior Researcher, Microsoft