The Financial Post reports in its Thursday edition that for months, Silicon Valley has buzzed about artificial intelligence agents' potential to transform work and life. The Post's Yvonne Lau writes that while generative AI programs like ChatGPT capture public attention, major companies are racing to refine large language models to autonomously execute tasks. OpenAI chief Sam Altman predicted in January that this will be the year when "the first AI agents 'join the workforce' and materially change company output." Silicon Valley leaders are warning of rapid job displacement due to AI. Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei predicted in May, 2025, that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and increase unemployment to 10 per cent to 20 per cent within five years. However, a May, 2025, Carnegie Mellon paper found that Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro was unsuccessful 70 per cent of the time in finishing real-world tasks, with other AI agents from OpenAI and Meta showing over 90 per cent failure rates. An IBM report from March, 2025, noted that while AI can analyze data and automate tasks to some degree, achieving complex decision-making will require significant advancements in contextual reasoning and edge case testing.