@levie: Agents will use software 100X more than people. When that happens, theres a huge need for guardrails on what the agents…
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Box CEO Aaron Levie argues that AI agents will use software 100X more than people, requiring guardrails, authoritative data sources, logging, and collaboration features; platforms enabling headless interactions will be best positioned.
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Agents will use software 100X more than people.
When that happens, theres a huge need for guardrails on what the agents are doing so they don’t leak data or change the wrong information, authoritative sources of truth for them to work with, logging and auditing of what they’re doing, the ability to collaborate with people through these systems, and more.
A simple query on any given agentic task could pull in more data than a user touches in a month. As a result, there are lots of categories of software that when it goes headless that the usage and value go up substantially. Agents will end up using our CRM data, documents and corporate knowledge, analytics data, and other information far more than people ever did.
The platforms that can move toward the model of powering these headless interactions, and have a business model and technology strategy to support this, will be in the best position in the future.
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The agent removes the friction. The underlying
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