Interview
How AI agents will change work

Mick Costigan
VP, Salesforce Futures
32 minHosted by Kim Isenberg and Peter ThumRecorded at Dreamforce 2026
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Which parts of your job can an AI agent take over, and how do you check its work? At Dreamforce, Mick Costigan, VP of Salesforce Futures, joined Kim Isenberg and Peter Thum for a conversation about AI agents, education and the future of work.
Mick explains why training data and the ability to verify an answer matter when deciding what to automate. They also discuss entry-level jobs, human judgment, personal AI assistants and their business models, and Slack as a place where agents might work across an organization — plus his predictions for the next two years, including digital twins that help businesses test decisions before making them.
Disclosure: Salesforce covered hotel accommodation for this Dreamforce visit.
Topics
- Has the year of AI agents arrived?
- Education and entry-level jobs
- Which work AI agents can do
- Human judgment and taste
- Personal AI agents and the economy
- Slack and the next phase of work
- Jobs, org charts and digital twins
Chapters
- 0:00Highlights
- 1:04Meet Mick Costigan
- 1:52Has the year of AI agents arrived?
- 3:32Why AI adoption takes time
- 6:05Education and entry-level jobs
- 8:22Rethinking how we learn
- 10:08Which work can AI agents do?
- 13:36Human judgment and taste
- 15:35Skills we should keep
- 18:19Personal AI agents and the economy
- 22:37Build or buy AI agents?
- 24:49Slack and the next phase of work
- 28:07What the next two years could bring
- 29:55Jobs, org charts and digital twins
Kim Isenberg is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Superintelligence, an AI newsletter published every weekday.
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