"King logged a ton of hours-sometimes at the expense of his weekends-but was confident he was excelling in his role as a product manager and data scientist. "I was coding and managing a team onshore and offshore. It was crazy, it's like, 'Give this 24-year-old millions of dollars of salary spent per month to build AI agents for Fortune 500 [companies]," King tells Fortune. "[It was] my dream job...I won first place in this OpenAI hackathon across the entire firm.'"
"Although King was proving himself as a key AI talent for PwC, he did begin to question the impact of his work. The AI agents King was building for major corporations could undoubtedly automate swaths of human roles-perhaps even entire job departments. One Microsoft Teams agent his group created mimicked an actual person, and King was a little spooked. "We had a late night call with all the boys that are building this thing, like, 'What the hell are we building right now?'""
A 26-year-old consultant at PwC moved to New York after graduating and joined technology consulting, working with major clients such as Oracle. PwC announced a $1 billion AI investment, and he joined an internal AI factory, working long hours and running firm-wide knowledge events. He built AI agents for Fortune 500 companies, won an OpenAI hackathon, and managed onshore and offshore teams. He began to worry the agents could automate many human roles after one Teams agent mimicked a person, prompting concern among the builders about the work's impact.
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