What can artificial intelligence achieve once AI agents can act autonomously and become like personal assistants? This fascinating DLD25 panel discussion with Eli Varn (Hubert Burda Media), Sebastian Küpers (Plan.Net Group) and Andreas Liebl (appliedAI) highlights practical use cases and shows how powerful the technology has become.
“These agents act and execute autonomously”, Andreas Liebl observes. “It’s the next stage” – far more than merely an improvement of generative AI systems like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion.
“At Burda we’re experimenting with different kinds of use cases in the agentic workflows”, Eli Varn says.
She showcases Burda’s AI platform, AISSIST, and demonstrates how it streamlines content creation workflows, from automated transcription and translation to image generation – using tools like Black Forest Labs’ FLUX.
“We’re going to be able to pursue business opportunities that we otherwise would have never been able to do”, Varn says, predicting that integrating agentic workflows into everyday business processes will make a “fundamental change.”
Sebastian Küpers explains that agentic AI systems can plan tasks, review their own outputs, and use other tools autonomously. “It feels like science fiction right now” he says, “and the first thing we need to do is to accept it is not science fiction anymore.”
He predicts a future with billions of specialized AI agents, which will drastically alter industries by automating intellectual and repetitive tasks, such as competitive analysis, which he said agents can now complete in mere hours instead of days.
The discussion also touches upon Europe’s competitiveness, the opportunity to build agents with an emphasis on data privacy, and much more.
