#36 - George Sivulka : Knowledge Work 2.0: The Company Creating The Multi-Agent Future

About this episode

George Sivulka discusses the future of white collar work and the role of multi-agent systems in transforming knowledge work.

We’re joined by George Sivulka , Founder and CEO of Hebbia , for a conversation on how does the future of white collar work look like with multi-agents. Hebbia is backed by some of the most legendary technology investors of our generation including Peter Thiel (early investor: Paypal, Facebook), Marc Andreesen (early investor: Airbnb, Github, Coinbase), Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO Google), Jerry Yang (Co-founder Yahoo). George’s background from Stanford’s PhD program, combined with his work at the cutting edge of AI meta-learning, has led him to a bold mission: to build Hebbia into a generationally important company that captures the full power of the AI revolution, not through chatbots, but through entirely new interfaces for serious, complex work. We dive into: What does the future of white collar/knowledge work look like What the future UX/UI of Agentic AI might be (beyond chatbots). How Hebbia uses multi-agent orchestration to tackle tasks like investment research, drug discovery, and complex analysis. How Hebbia solves hallucination by "citing first, generating second." Why George believes AI won't eliminate jobs, but will transform how we work—and why humans will always find new…

People in this episode

Host: Waheed Nabeel

Guest: George Sivulka

Topics covered

• future of work
• multi-agent systems
• AI in knowledge work
• investment research
• drug discovery
• user experience
• AI transformation

Keywords

• multi-agent orchestration
• AI meta-learning
• knowledge work
• UX/UI
• AI revolution
• job transformation
• investment research
• drug discovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hebbia, Paypal, Facebook, Airbnb, Github, Coinbase, Google, Yahoo

Books & works: Knowledge Work 2.0

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