Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head: remaking our world for machine intelligence

Fortune · George C. Lee II

Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head discusses how advancing AI agents could reshape both physical spaces and software by shifting design from human use to agent-ready workflows. The article cites that about 22% of land in cities with over 1 million residents is used for parking, and argues autonomous vehicles could cut that share and free space for other uses. It concludes that software and websites will increasingly be built to expose clean, API-focused interfaces for agents, changing where value and pricing power sit in classic human-facing systems.

Why it matters

The irony is that a world redesigned for machines may eventually allow us to recover something more purely human as we are relieved of utilitarian burden.