Earlier this year, I attended Davos in the Swiss Alps alongside influential CEOs, political leaders, academics and economists. After the conference, I joined a series of follow-up virtual sessions and noticed a strange trend: not all of the participants were human. In fact, a surprising number of guests sent AI agents in their place: bots that joined the conversation, took notes, then emailed summaries to their human counterparts. In one case, a group of 12 people was expected, but we ended up with six humans and six AI agents.
