Fetch.ai founder and CEO Humayun Sheikh laid out a vision of artificial intelligence that goes far beyond answering questions or generating content.
According to Sheikh, AI agents are here now—and they’re ready to take action on your behalf.
“You will have an agent or multiple agents who will perform multiple tasks on your behalf,” Sheikh told TheStreet Roundtable host Rob Nelson. “Not like when you give it an assigned thing, you will be able to kind of set it in motion to take care of tasks, to accomplish things, to actually speak on your behalf. To operate on your behalf.”
He described a world where every person could have multiple AI agents—like a professional agent for work tasks and a personal agent for home life. “So I have these agents… and I say to my professional agent, ‘Hey, go and book me an appointment with Rob.’” The agent then contacts Rob’s agent, checks both calendars, and finds the best time—all without any human interaction.
“It’s learning from your behavior,” Sheikh added. “You could actually just carry out that task quite without any interference from the human.”
This kind of agent-to-agent communication, Sheikh emphasized, is already a reality. “That exists right now,” he said. “We are about to release something along those lines in the next week. And it's not future, it's now. It's reality.”
These AI agents can integrate with your calendar, LinkedIn, WhatsApp—even IoT devices and your car. “We’ve done trials with car companies where you carry your personas within the car. These agents become and interact with the car as if it was you.”
The consumer experience is about to shift dramatically. Sheikh explained, “You wouldn’t have to open a travel app. You can actually go and say, ‘Hey, I booked my travel.’ It’ll go and take your preferences from your work side or family side. You wouldn’t have to explain it—and it’ll just do it.”