Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)
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Dan Shipper revisits his conversation with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about the future of the agentic web and its implications for AI.
In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI. The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—which would mean giving them access to the same sprawl of tools, data, and systems that make up the internet. Today, that bet is starting to pay off, as the foundational infrastructure for the agentic web is now being built. On this week's AI & I, Dan Shipper revisits his conversation with Kevin. They discuss Microsoft's role in the agentic web, why openness doesn't have to come at the expense of security, and why programmers should stay curious about new tools rather than resist them on principle. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Go to https://attio.com/every and get 15% off your first year. Timestamps: 0:00 Start 1:44 Introduction 2:49 The race to close the "capability overhang" 4:31 How agents will evolve into practical, useful tools 6:48 The role Kevin sees Microsoft playing in the agent…
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