Guest commentary: The robots are coming home. Do we know what we want our time for?

By Krisztián Galánthai Fekete Picture an early morning on the Central Coast. The fog is lifting off the water at Rincon and a surfer is already paddling out. Back home, the house is quiet except for a robot folding yesterday’s laundry. Nobody is rushing. The day belongs to the person in the waves. That scene is not here yet. The pieces, though, are arriving one by one. robots that once worked behind safety fences in factories are now being built for kitchens and living rooms. AI agents already research, schedule and answer customers. I can picture a day when even a car earns its keep while its owner stays home. This newspaper reported on Oct. 18 that Ventech would host “The Future of Work: Humans + AI Agents” at the Cabrillo Pavilion in Santa Barbara on Oct. 21. The panel was to look at AI agents taking on more complete business workflows, from research and customer support to sales and even building software and at how that could reshape talent and leadership.

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