AI & I Box CEO Aaron Levie on Why AI Agents Won’t Take Your Job
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Oct 8, 2025 
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, shares insights from his 20 years in tech leadership, emphasizing that AI agents will augment rather than replace human jobs. He explains how productivity gains lead to new opportunities, a concept he ties to Jevons Paradox. Drawing parallels with earlier tech revolutions, Levie discusses transforming workflows and the role of knowledge workers as managers of AI. He emphasizes the importance of creating an AI-first culture and explains the balance between tackling immediate issues and innovating for the future.
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Jobs Versus Tasks
- Jobs are collections of tasks and AI automates tasks, not entire jobs.
- Humans remain necessary to integrate outputs into broader workflows and make final decisions.
Productivity Expands Demand
- Increasing individual output usually increases organizational throughput rather than cutting headcount.
- Faster work often creates downstream growth and new hiring needs in other functions.
Lower Costs Create New Work
- Lowering the cost of tasks lights up new use cases that were previously uneconomical.
- AI will enable more prototyping and incremental work that later requires experts.