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Fortune
Alexei Oreskovic

How to run a company when the AI agents vastly outnumber the humans

LaShonda Anderson-Williams, chief customer and commercial officer at Salesforce, speaking at Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2026 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo: Stuart Isett/Fortune) (Credit: Stuart Isett/Fortune)

Having a “human in the loop” is the typical recommendation for organizations using artificial intelligence for jobs in which there’s no margin for error.

But what happens when it’s just not possible to keep a human in the loop?

As the use of AI ramps up within organizations and as businesses delegate more tasks to agentic AI, it’s a challenge that many corporate leaders are starting to grapple with.

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