From Copilot to Colleague: AI at Thomson Reuters with CTO Joel Hron

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Joel Hron discusses the transformation of Thomson Reuters through AI and the evolving role of engineers.

On the 67th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, host Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) talks with Joel Hron, Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters. Joel shares how Thomson Reuters is rebuilding 150-year-old knowledge-work franchises in legal, tax, and compliance around agentic AI, what changed when more than half of his engineers' code started being written by AI, and why the right mental model for working with AI is "colleague," not "copilot." Quick Hits from Joel: On the ...

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Host: Evan Reiser

Guest: Joel Hron

Topics covered

• AI in legal
• agentic AI
• knowledge work
• software engineering
• technology transformation

Keywords

• AI
• Thomson Reuters
• Joel Hron
• knowledge work
• software engineering
• agentic AI

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Organizations: Thomson Reuters, Abnormal AI

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