Aaron Levie

One big question on the minds of attendees at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit was how much AI will disrupt existing tech businesses. Box founder Aaron Levie, whose cloud content-management company is the kind of SaaS firm that supposedly faces a mortal threat from AI, said that on the contrary, agents can help customers unlock the vast power of SaaS software that most of them barely touch.

Christina Cacioppo of Vanta framed agents as something of a no-brainer for corporate functions like compliance, but there still need to be a lot of humans in the loop.