“We are entering a new era of self-discovery, driven by AI,” Zack Kass, Global AI Advisor and Former Head of Go-To-Market at OpenAI, said at the expo’s Founder Talk forum. This marked a shift from the “augmentation phase,” where AI simply boosted human productivity, to the “agent phase,” where AI started executing tasks on behalf of people. The next phase of AI, Kass explained, will be the rise of autonomous AI agents that operate across web pages, applications, and databases, becoming true digital assistants. “No one wants AI to tell jokes for them or to make them brave, those are human qualities,” Kass said. AI will change everything, but some things will always remain human, Kass concluded.