Azeem Azhar’s mission is to help leaders stay ahead of the curve at a time when technology, especially AI, is evolving at an exponential rate. The global thought leader and voice on AI, automation, and other emerging technologies is the founder of the Exponential View newsletter, which offers insights and advice to an eager audience of more than 116,000 people who want to understand the forces that are transforming our world. He joined WorkLab to discuss how AI can help business leaders navigate uncertainty and to illustratehow AI agents and deep research will fundamentally change the way we work.

 

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Welcome to the eighth season of WorkLab, the podcast from Microsoft. I’m your host, Molly Wood. On WorkLab we hear from experts about the future of work, from how to use AI effectively to what it will take to stay ahead in business.  

So what I go and tell CEOs of big companies is no one built a great business by cutting costs. What’s really interesting is what you can do to do more and to deliver more.