MeetUp – AI Reads: Co-Intelligence, Agentic AI and Empire of AI

Description

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Professor Ethan Mollick. This highly rated book explores how humans and AI can work together productively, treating AI as a collaborator rather than a replacement. The book focuses on practical ways organisations can integrate generative AI into everyday work while maintaining human judgement, accountability, and effective governance, making it highly relevant for information governance and leadership audiences.

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Agentic Artificial Intelligence: Harnessing AI Agents to Reinvent Business, Work, and Life by Pascal Bornet,Jochen Wirtz, and Thomas H. Davenport 2025. A non-technical guide to AI agents, with cases and a roadmap for deploying agentic systems. AI agents create what the authors call “compounding intelligence advantages”-the more they’re used, the smarter they become, creating an accelerating gap between early adopters and laggards. We will discuss governance safeguards, controls for action-taking systems, and record-keeping for autonomous workflows.

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Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao, Allen Lane, 2025. Hao explores the rapid rise of AI, focusing on the implications and the race for dominance among major companies like OpenAI.  The book reveals the hidden costs and ethical dilemmas arising from labour and environmental issues, the ethical implications of large-scale AI, as well as what opaque supply chains mean for auditability and governance.

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This session is a governance-focused conversation about what these ideas mean in practice for organisations. We will explore:

• how AI power is shifting across organisations and supply chains
• what “working with AI” really means for accountability and assurance
• why agentic AI raises new risks for control, documentation and oversight the implications for information governance, privacy, records and risk frameworks

Note:
This is an interactive discussion-based session. Participants are required to have their video cameras on to support active engagement.
The MeetUp will be conducted under Chatham House Rule and will not be recorded, to enable open discussion and the free exchange of views.