How AI and agents are reshaping design, research, and enterprise work

This cluster explores how AI—especially agents and generative tools—is rapidly transforming creative, design, and knowledge work, from UX and industrial design to enterprise analysis. It spans macro forecasts about AI crossing the frontier of human knowledge and the looming “AI cliff,” to practical topics like responsible AI UX, hybrid human–machine intelligence, building custom agent skills, and deploying agents safely inside engineering systems. Comparative research on designers in China and the UK, startup funding for agent infrastructure, and debates over which uniquely human capabilities AI cannot replace all converge on one question: where and how humans create value in an AI-saturated workplace.