[DigitalToday reporter Jinju Hong] Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia said AI will go beyond simply speeding up corporate work and will prompt a reassessment of tasks that are currently taken for granted.

On Oct. 28, TechRadar reported that Sicilia, speaking on stage at Oracle's annual AI World event, said, "We cannot assume that everything we do today will continue to be necessary," and added, "AI will fundamentally rewrite organisational processes."

Sicilia stressed that employees should examine which routine tasks they have handled are truly still necessary. "We have to ask how many of the things we take for granted today will actually still be necessary," he said. He also said AI would give people "time to live more humanly."

The remarks come as Oracle unveiled new AI-based enterprise applications. In the announcement, Oracle put agent-based work at the forefront. It is designed not as a simple assistive function but as a model that takes over and handles multiple work processes end to end.

Oracle believes AI has moved beyond the experimental stage into real-world deployment. It said AI could go beyond improving efficiency in some tasks and remove specific steps in work itself. Oracle's hiring team said it is using agent-based AI to complete market research preparation in 15 to 20 minutes. It said the same work used to take 2 to 4 days.

The newly unveiled Fusion agent-based applications include reasoning, business data analysis, outcome simulation and execution of approved actions. Oracle presented a structure in which an AI agent identifies a situation or problem, simulates the next steps and then carries out the best option in practice.

Oracle also included a strategic workforce planning tool aimed at HR organisations. The tool is designed to forecast workforce demand, identify staffing gaps and handle necessary adjustments. The plan is to automate tasks that people previously handled manually over long periods and reduce the burden of administrative work that is not directly linked to revenue.

For customer-facing work, Oracle also presented a separate executive briefing document application. The tool examines a customer's history, company-related news and revenue potential, then compiles key information into a single briefing document before a meeting. Oracle said it would reduce time spent on administrative preparation so staff can focus more on work linked to revenue.

Karthik Raghavan (카르틱 라가반), Oracle's senior vice president in charge of application development, said it enables organisations to turn business goals into growth opportunities, stable services and stronger customer trust.

Sicilia's remarks suggest companies may also change how they measure productivity going forward. He raised the point that completing more work may not mean the same thing as spending more time working. Oracle is presenting a direction that goes a step beyond productivity gains, toward automating entire workflows.

Concerns about jobs for people still remain. Oracle repeatedly delivered a message at AI World that companies need to rethink how they work from the ground up. At the same time, it also presented the view that in companies that adopt advanced AI first, people's work could change form rather than disappear. Sicilia said at the end of the event, "We are giving people more human time."