{"id":8014,"date":"2026-06-19T00:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:32:37","slug":"how-to-run-a-company-when-the-ai-agents-vastly-outnumber-the-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=8014","title":{"rendered":"How to run a company when the AI agents vastly outnumber the humans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Having a \u201chuman in the loop\u201d is the typical recommendation for organizations using artificial intelligence for jobs in which there\u2019s no margin for error.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But what happens when it\u2019s just not possible to keep a human in the loop?<\/p>\n

As the use of AI ramps up within organizations and as businesses delegate more tasks to agentic AI, it\u2019s a challenge that many corporate leaders are starting to grapple with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a material increase in the speed with which we can create things,\u201d Zach Maybury, chief technology officer at online sports betting platform DraftKings said during a panel discussion at Fortune\u2019s<\/em> flagship technology conference, Brainstorm Tech, this month. <\/p>\n

Maybury said his company already deals with trillions of transactions and highly distributed workloads. Once you introduce agentic AI into the mix\u2014with AI agents talking directly to other AI agents\u2014the volume and complexity of the operation is far too vast for traditional approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t insert humans into those loops,\u201d Maybury said. \u201cWe will never have enough humans to insert in all those loops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybury was just one of several business leaders at Brainstorm Tech who discussed the challenges of managing AI in mission-critical situations. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn high-stakes environments like health care, it\u2019s not taking the wrong tee-shirt size if you\u2019re a retailer, it\u2019s a life on the other side of it,\u201d said Salesforce chief customer and commercial officer LaShonda Anderson-Williams.<\/p>\n

While there is no one-size fits all solution to these challenges, many of the panelists described techniques and frameworks that have proven successful for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anderson-Williams said taking a clear-eyed look at AI use cases, and understanding what outcome you\u2019re ultimately aiming for, is critical.<\/p>\n

Equally important is nailing down the proper governance framework\u2014that is, a clear policy and set of rules that stipulate where and how the AI is allowed to operate, how it\u2019s designed, and who is responsible for various parts of the process. As companies expand their AI and agentic use from small-scale experiments to broad rollouts with high stakes, an up-to-date governance framework is indispensable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people just ran and bought a lot of different tools and technologies and just bolted them on, and there wasn\u2019t any governance on how the tech was applied,\u201d said Anderson-Williams.<\/p>\n

DraftKing\u2019s Maybury said that having a solid AI governance foundation in place provides important safeguards and helps mitigate risk. That might mean taking a hard look at existing processes and making changes, revisions, and expansions to the old governance rules. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s got to be governance that can scale,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Moisant, Indeed\u2019s chief information and security officer, echoed Maybury\u2019s comments about the challenge of having humans in the loop throughout a high-volume job listings service used by 645 million job seekers and 3.5 million employers. He suggests constant testing of processes involving AI to gauge how the results compare to the desired outcomes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also important to consider the type of situation where AI is being deployed, said Diya Jolly, chief product and technology officer at accounting software firm Xero. Is it something that requires judgment, or something with a clear answer?<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your outcome is deterministic, then you can probably let the agent go pretty far,\u201d Jolly said, noting that the outcomes in those situations can easily be tested and measured against the desired result. But, she said, \u201cwhen you have judgement within the decision, that is when it becomes really hard to take the human out of the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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