AI-Ya Daily · Episode 11

AI Agents Are Doing the Work Now: Dots, Grok Bot and Malaysian Jobs

29 min English
0:0029:08

Show notes

In this Friday special of our AI news podcast, Aiman, Mei Ling and Raj ask what happens when AI agents like OpenAI’s Dots and xAI’s Grok Bot start doing whole jobs. Mei Ling leads a longer, reflective episode on the big case, the job data, the sceptics and history, and what it all means for workers, SMEs and students in Malaysia.

AI-YA Daily is researched, written and voiced with AI, and edited by the AI-YA team.

Also in this episode:

  • Meta’s halted plan to hand whole teams’ work to agents, and Klarna’s return to human customer service.
  • A Grok Bot agent that, by its owner’s account, posted his bank balances to a company chat.
  • Mastercard’s agentic payment pilot in Malaysia with CIMB and RHB.
  • What ISIS Malaysia and TalentCorp say about the jobs most exposed to AI.
  • What PERKESO and MYFutureJobs offer people who lose their jobs.
  • Lessons from ATMs, factory robots and self-checkout.
  • What Hard Fork, Big Technology, The Ezra Klein Show, The Diary of a CEO and Odd Lots said about agents.
  • Each host’s position on whether to hand whole jobs to agents.

Timestamps 0:04 The bot that posted its owner’s bank balance 0:45 Meet the team 1:38 The big case: Dots, Grok Bot and agents that do the work 7:11 Lives and jobs: who’s exposed in Malaysia 12:20 The counter-case: failures, ATMs, robots and self-checkout 18:09 A word from AI-YA 18:51 What other podcasts say, and what they miss about Malaysia 24:13 The Friday positions 27:39 One thing to do this weekend 28:07 See you tomorrow

Stories and sources

Standing thread: The big questions (Friday special).

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