Mark Cuban says AI agents will cut workdays down by an hour

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Impact Link Save Saved Read in app Loading audio narration... This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Mark Cuban said AI agents will reduce workdays by an hour. He said smart companies would reward employees using AI with more time daily. Other executives, like Bill Gates and Jamie Dimon, have talked about AI helping shrink workweeks. AI-generated summary Summaries are generated by an AI model trained on Business Insider's articles. AI may make mistakes or provide inaccurate/incomplete information. We're unable to load that answer right now. Please try again. What are AI agents? Who are other AI advocates? How do AI tools impact mental health? How might AI reshape traditional jobs? What are the downsides of AI agents? Mark Cuban said AI agents will slash an hour of work from typical workdays. In an X post on Sunday, the billionaire investor wrote that "smart, bigger companies" will let their employees create and use AI agents to improve their productivity. But he said that more importantly, "they will reduce their work day by an hour to start." He said that the employees will work one less hour per day while earning the same pay, adding that companies should "reward people doing the daily with more time."AI agents work as virtual assistants that can complete tasks from start to finish autonomously, without needing user prompts. Cuban's comments came from one of his several posts on AI on Sunday. In an earlier post, he said he was not an AI "doomer" and did not think the rise of AI would lead to mass unemployment."Over time the same shit is available to everyone. The early adopters, that iterated and executed the best, were the winners," he wrote. Cuban's comments on shorter work days fall in line with those from other tech executives.Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in 2024 said that AI avatars would be able to handle everyday tasks like attending meetings, helping to shorten workweeks to three or four days. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon both said in 2023 that AI will lead society to a three or 3.5-day workweek. Cuban, a former "Shark Tank" investor, has been AI-forward in his recent posts on X. In an interview that aired in February, he said AI has ushered in an era where "some kid in a basement" with a good idea could transform the industry.Cuban has also talked about AI agents, saying in December that new graduates should go for small to medium businesses and help them adopt AI agents, a task that big companies don't need them to do. While AI agents have been the latest productivity buzzword, research has found that they still require plenty of human intervention. A Workday survey in January showed that nearly 40% of AI's value is lost to rework and misalignment, due to workers having to check for errors and hallucinations.Another survey, published in the Harvard Business Review earlier this month, found that some employees are experiencing "AI brain fry," mental fog from using too many AI tools at once.