Question 1

How are AI agents rewriting the internet and changing shopping?

Accepted Answer

_OpenAI and other LLM providers are becoming the dominant interface for online discovery._

> OpenAI's ambition to become the universal interface to what we knew as the Internet isn't surprising. If anything, they might be late. Remember Perplexity's 'Shop Like a Pro'? Their goal was to handle all of shopping — from research to payment.

Source: [AI Agents - The Internet Is Being Rewritten - Survey Users Vs Brands?](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lutzfinger/2025/07/24/ai-agentsthe-internet-is-being-rewrittensurvey-users-vs-brands/)

Question 2

How should businesses prepare for AGI, and what comes after chatbots and agents?

Accepted Answer

_The practical move is to avoid overcommitting and to build toward agents with persistent memory rather than one-shot chatbots._

> The right answer is not to overcommit to any particular technology at a particular moment, because if the singularity idea is at all real, we're all going to have to pivot and re-pivot. What's coming is agents with persistent memory that reason on that memory and build their own world model as they go. An agent that remembers everything it ever did feels less like a query loop and more like a personal assistant you actually have a relationship with.

Source: [Rethinking the AGI Race, with Benjamin Goertzel (eCornell Keynote)](https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K052826/)

Q&A, AI agents

How are AI agents rewriting the internet and changing shopping?

How should businesses prepare for AGI, and what comes after chatbots and agents?