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Aliv has a clear three-stage vision for the future application of AI: from "human-led tools" to "workflow

Aliv has a clear three-stage vision for the future application of AI: from "human-led tools" to "workflow automation" and finally to an "autonomous decision-making system"...

July 20, 2025 · 1 min read

Aliv has a clear three-stage vision for the future application of AI: from "human-led tools" to "workflow automation" and finally to an "autonomous decision-making system" in which multiple agents work together to play the role of a new employee.

They envision a future in which companies hire people for strategic insights, talent, and taste, with the entire company run by a team of agents.

The model of "one person commanding an army of professional agents" in this vision means that the role of humans will shift from tedious execution to high-level strategy formulation and order issuance.

In this environment, newly added strategic talents will no longer need to learn a large number of operational details, but will quickly master how to interact with and issue instructions to an efficient and intelligent agent system.

This fundamentally changes the meaning of "onboarding", making it more focused on the understanding of macro-systems and command art rather than the mastery of micro-processes, which is expected to achieve extremely fast "onboarding" speeds, even reaching the point of "one person operating a product portfolio"

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