Fast Company: For the last several years, enterprises have treated AI as something to test. A pilot here, a proof of concept there. That era is ending. According to new global DeepL research, a survey of 5,000 global executives on the impact of AI agents reshaping business, 69% expect AI agents to fundamentally change how their companies operate in 2026. Nearly half anticipate major transformation, while another quarter say that change is already underway.
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There are a lot of people that definitely fear the rise of AI. I am not one of them. While I'm for sure opposed to using it to do your work or to replace you solving problems or questions on your own. I definitely think that this is a very useful tool that can be placed into all sorts of programs and apps that can assist us with our work. For example, Premier Pro and Photoshop and other parts of the adobe suite. Are all now basically filled with various AI tools that you can use to improve your work. They don't edit photos for you, or edit videos for you. But provide you new tools to make your editing better, and I think this sort of innovation is exactly what AI should be used for in the long term. I think to most people it's already become prevalent that you can't survive in the world relying solely on AI.
I believe that in many ways the advent of AI mimics the advent of industrial mechanics. We start with simple machines that are only a bit faster than humans and are fairly error prone but through iteration these machines get faster and better at what they do over time. But at the end of the day AI is just a machine and machines do precisely what they are programmed to do to a fault. If and when AI malfunctions it will not be as flashy as an industrial machine. In fact in many ways malfunction would be a misnomer: it will have fulfilled its function precisely as it was programmed to. But actions can have far more consequences than are immediately obvious on paper. For example if an AI is seeking to optimize purely for profit it may inevitably begin to seek short term gains which hurt the company in the future rather than actual long term strategies. And that's looking at it from a purely monetary standpoint. Right now were so busy thinking about what AI can do but so far I've seen relatively little of making it do things safely. Humans come into the workplace with established morals that allow them to know when to adjust priorities without needing to be explicitly told to but AI must be taught. If AI must take the role of humans (which given industry trajectory seems inevitable) it must take on the responsibility not simply the task.
No matter your thoughts on AI, it is already here and we should learn to work with it rather than fear and fight against it. But that’s easier said than done. With uncertainty surrounding its capabilities and a job market that is hard to breach, it is natural to be wary. I wonder how it will impact the various theatre fields, many of which already used automation. For instance, with costume construction there are already sewing machines with refined needles that can implement very complex designs. Training a specialized, AI integrated sewing machine that is able to recognize snags in the fabric and keep running with minimal supervision would free people up to do other things. This does not replace the designer nor the implementer, it just reallocates tasks to make things easier for people already involved in the process. With that being said, we as a society have to be careful about the ways in which we use AI and ensure that we are using them to our benefit and not just to do things for us or else we will not learn and grow.
I personally think AI has a lot of good uses and potential behind it, however, that doesn’t mean people should be making AI videos of a cat dancing and wasting the energy and processing on that. However, I believe that it can do really awesome things with research, cybersecurity and threat detection, and even helping to support things like ATC towers. I don’t think it can be fully autonomous either, rather it needs to be monitored to some extent by a human to ensure its actually doing things properly and doesn’t make mistakes, as it’s training can really screw itself up if not done properly. With those contingencies, I think it’s about time companies are just done investing more money into training it rather than just hiring humans to continue to do the job. While computers can absolutely do the job faster, it has a lot of cons that just outweigh the speed of it.
As much as I wish AI had never existed and would never be incorporated into workspaces, I understand that its bound to happen as it is new “useful” technology. I just hope that it is incorporated into companies and workspaces in such a way that is not harmful or very minimal. I am fine with it being used as a TOOL within softwares such as photoshop to assist in processes done by humans, but nothing more. It must also be very limited so that the costs on the environment are lowered. Even saying this, I don’t want it to be used. Our environment is already falling apart without AI and now with the added pressures and costs of AI it’s going to fall apart quicker and I’m scared. Not enough people care enough. Whats the worth of AI if there will eventually be no planet for us to use it.
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