Making AI Possible

Human Coordination of Agentic Teams

Episode Summary

Introducing our new Host of Making AI Possible: Dr. Crystal Dilworth. 📣 In our September 15th webcast, Human Coordination of Agentic Teams, we welcomed special guest Nikos Michalakis, Big Tech software engineer (Netflix), former SVP at Toyota Woven, and co-Founder and CTO of ActBl to talk about the future of software engineering and to reflect on our history of "translating human intent into machine behavior".

Episode Notes

🔓We discussed the concept of "Agency", specifically asking, “Is directing the work of a collection of intelligent compute resources easier than keeping a team of humans with their own hopes and motivations working towards the same goal?”

We addressed these questions as well:

✔️ What does it mean for a human to have "agency" and how does this apply in the context of AI?
✔️ What are the considerations to make when deciding to hire a human vs. build an agent to perform a necessary role?
✔️ What can leaders learn about managing agentic teams while building their business considerations, goals and intelligence data?

📣 Listen and watch the replay of our September web/podcast with Crystal and Nikos as they reflected on the challenges of a continuous exchange between human storytelling and machine visualization.