One Company Now Has More AI Agents Than Human Employees | Ryan Gavin of Slack

I'm hoping not to remember typewriters and carbon paper. At what point do we hit sort of as fast as we can work? How is this gonna affect not only the enterprise but the economy? For many years, like, the narrative is, well, you know, it is not gonna gonna replace job. I'll I'll be honest. I've said that line many times. This is probably the first time I believe it. They have now more agents deployed in their organization than they have employees. They have more digital workforce than they have human workforce, which is incredible. Where do you see this going as these agents become more capable? Do you imagine Slack as becoming kind of the brains of the enterprise and employees are talking to the brain and the brain is in going out and executing actions on the part of So so, yeah, give me the, your background, how you got to Slack, and and what, Slack as the AgenTek OS operating system means. Sure. Well, Juan, thanks for thanks for having me. It's great to it's great to be here. I, so Ryan Gavin. I'm the chief marketing officer for Slack. Really just middle management overhead is really what that means. I've been here for about two years. Good fortune to be able to work around kind of machine learning and artificial intelligence for many, many years. I was at Microsoft for twenty years, in which time I got to work on search business, which obviously was heavy into machine learning. At times, I helped to build out the business and marketing practice at AWS, on the machine learning and AI side. This is now five, six years ago. I worked at a startup that was looking to disrupt the supply chain and trucking industry, using machine learning practices. And so I was fortunate to kinda come over to Slack, two years ago, to really kind of, be part of this kind of incredible transformation that's happening right now, which is, this kinda new moment for Slack, which is almost like what it was built for, which is really to become this kind of we call it kind of an operating system for work, which is bringing together a platform that has kind of not only all your people and your teams connected, but now connecting all your data, your structured data, your unstructured data, and connecting all your workflows, all the enterprise applications that you're using, all the systems work that you bring, and bringing all those together now even with agents. And how do you bring all that into one one kind of workflow for organizations and for people, which are some of our most important assets? And how do you have them interact with it through one of the most powerful tools that we have, which is conversation? I don't want to have to learn another tool or a tab. I just wanna be able to talk and have it do what it …