Alam: Enterprise adoption of autonomous AI agents will take a full decade
Muhammad Alam · SAP's Muhammad Alam: AI's Real Employment Impact, Path To Genuine ROI, Is Hype Good? · Dec 9, 2025 · at 23:00
Muhammad Alam, head of product and engineering at SAP, discusses enterprise AI adoption with Alex Kantrowitz.
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“That end state of everything is going to be run by agents, billions of agents. I mean, I think it's just, it's an unrealistic, hyped up end state right now that we're not ready to get to, and I think there's a lot of other people that are now saying the same things as well, that, hey, it's not going to be a year of agents, it's going to be a decade of agents, because it's going to take a little bit for us to sort of go figure out the accuracy, the trust, and the reliability on it, and we believe in the same thing, but we have to sort of go through those steps”
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