Block's CFO says companies may soon put AI agents on organisation charts as firms reshape themselves to make heavy AI spending pay off.
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01Summary
- 01Block CEO Jack Dorsey cut 40% of staff earlier this year as part of an overhaul linked to wider AI adoption.
- 02Amrita Ahuja said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit on Tuesday that some companies are already putting AI agents in their work charts.
- 03She said workers will be responsible for training and deploying AI agents, which will need ongoing development, context and changing goals.
- 04Synopsys CFO Shelagh Glaser said AI investment must be intentional to be defensible to a company.
- 05Amazon vice-president Heather Zorn said the key test for workplace AI is revenue growth.
02Why it matters
The comments point to AI changing how companies are organised and how jobs are defined. That could affect hiring, reporting lines and how firms justify large technology budgets.
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