Mixture of Experts AI agent adoption: From scientists to CFOs
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Mar 27, 2026 
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, research scientist exploring AI's effects on reproducibility and agentic systems. Volkmar Uhlig, CTO focused on data platforms and automation. Ritika Gunnar, GM for Data leading enterprise AI and cultural change. They discuss rapid model progress, whether professions will be automated, reproducibility and data readiness in science, and practical back-office and developer agent adoption hotspots.
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Complete Automation Unlocks Full Economic Value
- Full automation yields maximum economic gain; partial automation can erode the remaining human roles.
- Volkmar Uhlig references the idea that only closing the loop entirely captures the big productivity benefits.
Adopt AI To Elevate Legal Work
- Use AI to augment lawyers so they can focus on judgment, client trust, and emotionally nuanced tasks.
- Ritika Gunnar advises lawyers should adopt AI to raise their productivity and the bar for remaining competitive.
Measured Agent Use Underrepresents Scientific Adoption
- The apparent low agent adoption in science may reflect measurement bias and the difference between tools for code vs. domain data.
- Volkmar Uhlig questions the GitHub/ORCID method and asks whether AI accelerates or standardizes scientific output.