Chapter 4Expanding Human–Agent Collaboration
As employees become increasingly fluent and strategic in their collaboration with AI, organizations will develop a stronger foundation for exploring opportunities for them to work with and manage AI agents. Inside your walls, you will cultivate a new class of superusers, advisors, diagnosticians, engineers, and operators, who will become exponentially more productive and pull the business toward them. Your job as an infinite leader is to find them, equip them, and help their practices spread.
The difference between AI agents and AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta.AI is that the latter only respond to direct prompts and do not take initiative in the pursuit of goals. Those models are not designed to make decisions on their own. AI agents, by contrast, are designed to act independently to complete tasks. They are autonomous systems designed to understand their environment, make decisions, and take action toward a desired outcome, with human input and management.
For example, a sales AI agent might connect to CRM and email systems to monitor incoming leads and customer interactions. ...
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