Name: ABQ.Dialogues #8 Future of our Work
Start: 2026-05-21T18:00:00.000+03:00
End: 2026-05-21T21:00:00.000+03:00
Location: FABER

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When AI stops being a tool and becomes part of the workforce

For decades, work has been organized around people, roles, departments, processes, tools, and institutions.

Then automation started replacing repetitive tasks.

Now we are moving toward something more disruptive: 

AI agents that can act cvasi-autonomously inside companies

They do not just generate text. They can search databases, trigger workflows, read procedures, update records, answer customers, prepare reports, support decisions, monitor exceptions, and coordinate tasks across digital systems.

The next phase of work may not be defined only by humans using AI, but by humans working 

 AI agents, automated systems, and eventually embodied robots operating inside real organizations.

Who manages the relationship between humans, AI agents, procedures, data, responsibility, and trust?

At ABQ.Dialogues #8, we open a conversation about the future of work when intelligence becomes operational, automation becomes more autonomous, and organizations begin to include non-human actors inside their daily processes.

This is not a conversation about hype. It is not a conversation about replacing people. It is a conversation about agency, governance, meaning, competence, responsibility, and the kind of work culture we want to build before the systems become too embedded to question.

Why now: work is becoming partially non-human

The AI transition is no longer limited to productivity tools, chatbots, or isolated experiments.

Inside companies, a new layer is emerging:

o AI agents connected to internal knowledge bases.

o Automation flows connected to business procedures.

o Decision-support systems trained on organizational data.

o Digital workers that can execute tasks across tools.

o Synthetic colleagues that can answer, summarize, classify, recommend, escalate, and increasingly act.

Soon, the question “Do we use AI?” may become outdated.

o Who trains employees to work with them?

o Who protects human judgment when systems become faster, cheaper, and more confident than people?

o Who is accountable when an automated system makes the wrong call?

o Who decides which parts of work must remain human?

And if organizations do not consciously design this transition, it will be designed by vendors, efficiency pressures, procurement decisions, and default settings.

If AI agents become part of the workforce, does Human Resources remain only about humans?

Or do organizations need a new discipline:

Maybe the future HR department will not only onboard employees, but also help onboard AI systems.

Maybe people operations will need to understand not only motivation, culture, learning, and leadership, but also human–AI collaboration, agent governance, digital responsibility, and organizational trust.

Maybe the next frontier of work is not simply automation.

coordination between humans and non-human workers

At ABQ.Dialogues #8, we will examine how work changes when AI moves from assistance to participation.

Timișoara has a strong technology, automotive, engineering, manufacturing, services, education, and business operations base.

This means the region will not only watch the AI transition from the outside.

The region has enough technical competence to build with AI. But the harder challenge is not only technical.

The harder challenge is organizational and cultural:

o Can companies redesign work without reducing people to supervisors of machines?

o Can HR become a strategic function in AI transformation, not only a support function after decisions are already made?

o Can local organizations create responsible models of human–AI collaboration before external platforms impose their own logic?

o Can Timișoara become a place where the future of work is not just adopted, but shaped?

This dialogue is for people who are already feeling that work is changing faster than organizational language can describe it:

To respond well to the future of work, organizations may need:

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