AI Agents Are Here. The Future of Work: How Autonomous AI Is Reinventing Work, Software, and Organizations
AI Agents Are Here. The Future of Work: How Autonomous AI Is Reinventing Work, Software, and Organizations
Saturday, September 5, 2026
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Stanford Campus
Location details will be shared with confirmed attendees.
About Event
Rethinking Agents in the Age of AI — The Next Decade of Work Starts Here
Episode 02 of “Rethinking the World in the Age of AI” — a six-part series
Every era has one question it can’t stop asking.
Ours is this:
What happens when intelligence stops being scarce?
Across six sessions, this series follows that question wherever it leads — from the search box to AI agents that work alongside us, from the infrastructure powering intelligence to robots entering the physical world, from AI accelerating scientific discovery to the question that ultimately belongs to everyone:
What should we build?
Six episodes. One story:
01 · Rethinking Search — The Next Decade of Search Starts Here
02 · Rethinking Agents — The Next Decade of Work Starts Here
03 · Rethinking Infrastructure — The Next Decade of Compute Starts Here
04 · Rethinking the Physical World — The Next Decade of Robotics Starts Here
05 · Rethinking Science — The Next Decade of Discovery Starts Here
06 · Rethinking What We Build — The Next Decade of Building Starts Here
Episode 01 asked how AI is changing the way we discover information.
Episode 02 asks what happens when AI starts doing the work.
For decades, software has waited for humans to tell it what to do.
Open the app.
Click the button.
Write the prompt.
Execute the task.
AI agents are beginning to change that relationship.
Instead of simply responding to instructions, increasingly capable AI systems can reason, plan, use tools, maintain context, coordinate across systems, and take actions toward a goal.
We are beginning to move from:
Tools → Collaborators
Tasks → Outcomes
Software → Autonomous Systems
And that shift could reshape much more than productivity.
It could change how companies are built, how teams operate, how software is designed, how organizations allocate work, and ultimately what it means to work alongside machines.
We are moving from an era where humans operate software to one where humans increasingly delegate to intelligence.
Join us at Stanford for Episode 02 of Rethinking the World in the Age of AI, as we bring together builders, researchers, founders, investors, and operators to explore the rapidly emerging world of AI agents — and what it means for the next decade of work.
Featured Guests
To be announced.
Topics We’ll Explore
From copilots to autonomous agents — when does AI stop assisting and start acting?
How reasoning, memory, planning, tool use, and multimodal capabilities are enabling increasingly capable agents
The rise of multi-agent systems and machine-to-machine collaboration
How AI agents may transform engineering, research, sales, operations, finance, customer support, and other forms of knowledge work
What happens to SaaS when users increasingly interact with agents instead of traditional interfaces?
How organizations may evolve when teams include both humans and autonomous AI workers
The emerging agent infrastructure stack — identity, memory, permissions, orchestration, observability, evaluation, and security
Trust, reliability, alignment, and human oversight in increasingly autonomous systems
How agents could change the economics of software and knowledge work
What founders should build in the agentic era
Where new opportunities may emerge as the cost of intelligence continues to fall
AI agents are still early.
Many systems remain unreliable. Long-running tasks remain difficult. Memory is imperfect. Permissions, security, evaluation, accountability, and alignment are still open problems.
But the direction is becoming increasingly clear:
AI is moving from answering questions to taking actions.
That transition could become one of the defining platform shifts of the next decade.
For founders, it raises a new question:
What businesses become possible when intelligence itself becomes a programmable resource?
For companies:
What does an organization look like when every employee can delegate work to AI agents?
For researchers:
How do we build autonomous systems that remain reliable, controllable, secure, and aligned with human intent?
And for all of us:
What becomes uniquely human when machines can increasingly reason, coordinate, and act?
Whether you’re building AI products, investing in frontier technologies, conducting research, operating a company, or simply curious about where AI is headed, this forum is an opportunity to hear from and connect with people thinking seriously about what comes next.
The next decade of work may not be defined by humans versus AI.
It may be defined by how humans and intelligent agents learn to work together.
This Is Episode 02
The story started with search.
Now intelligence leaves the search box — and starts taking action.
From here, we’ll follow it deeper into the infrastructure powering these systems, into the physical world, into scientific discovery, and ultimately into the question of what we choose to build.
This is only the beginning.
Free, and For the Community
This series is completely free and non-profit.
No tickets. No paywall. Just people who care about where AI is going, in one room.
It’s part of a larger belief we act on at Loomus.ai:
Intelligence should be accessible to everyone, everywhere.
That’s why we’ve also used AI agents to build free learning tools for communities where access to frontier AI resources is still limited — including Vietnam and beyond — curating AI research papers and organizing them into knowledge graphs so that anyone, anywhere, can follow the frontier.
We believe the future of AI should not only be discussed behind closed doors.
It should be explored by researchers, founders, students, builders, investors, and communities together.
Founders: The Stage Is Open
If you’re building a startup, come show the community what you’re building.
No sponsorship required.
No pay-to-play.
Just bring something interesting, useful, or ambitious.
Founders help founders.
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Whether you’re a student, recent graduate, working professional, or simply someone excited about AI, technology, and community building, we’d love to hear from you.
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Rethinking Agents in the Age of AI
September 5, 2026 · Stanford
The Next Decade of Work Starts Here.